Step 1In the first century the world was divided, just as it is today, but the fundamental distinction was between Jews and Gentiles. For this reason, some Jewish Christians had difficulty accepting pagan converts – some even said they had to become Jews first. Paul shows the Ephesians how God responded to the world's demand for unity: it was in Christ. The paragraph preceding my section speaks of the ancient state of the Gentiles and Jews. The Jews hated those who were not of their race and called them Gentiles, but the Law affected their bodies and not their hearts; The Gentiles were strangers, excluded from God's people. My section talks about the destruction of the wall and the new structure. All men – Jew or Gentile – can come to God through Jesus. In his death, he not only brought harmony between man and God, but also between man and his neighbor. The section following mine talks about how they can trust Paul knowing God's plan and that he is the minister to the Gentiles, because he was actually in prison on charges of bringing a Gentile into the Temple . What this meant for these people was that they were now included in God's plan. For so long, they weren't even allowed to go to the Temple in Jerusalem, and now they are the Temple! It meant putting aside centuries of negative feelings toward one another and uniting under Christ. Step 2 I don't think there's really that big of a gap here. Racial or cultural division between Jews and Gentiles was a major problem in the Church of Ephesus, and we still live in a divided world today – probably not as it is expressed. The difference for us, I suppose, would be that there were express laws prohibiting such mixing in worship, but there are many underlying prejudices in our world. We have a history of knowing unity in Christ, but this concept was new to them. Step 3All men come to God through Christ, whose death destroyed the ancient barrier of the Law and commandments making peace for all mankind with God. Only Christ counts, because in Him all humanity is united in “one new man »..”