Passage 1In the first century, the world was divided, just like today, but the key distinction was between Jews and Gentiles. For this reason, some Jewish Christians had difficulty accepting Gentile converts—some even said they had to become Jews first. Paul shows the Ephesians how God responded to the world's call for unity: it was in Christ. The paragraph before my section talks about the previous state of the Gentiles and the Jews. The Jews hated those who were not of their race and called them Gentiles, but the Law touched their bodies and not their hearts; The Gentiles were strangers, excluded from God's people. My section talks about the tearing down of the wall and the new structure. All people, 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 fellow man. The section after mine tells that they can trust that Paul knows God's plan and that he is the minister of the Gentiles, since he was actually in prison on charges of bringing a Gentile into the Temple. What it meant for these people was that they were now included in God's plan. For a long time they were not 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 2I don't think there's really that big of a gap here. The racial or cultural divide between Jews and Gentiles was a major issue in the church of Ephesus, and today we still live in a divided world, probably not so expressed. I guess the difference for us is that there were explicit laws prohibiting such mixing in worship, but there are a lot of underlying prejudices in our world. We have a history of knowing unity in Christ, but this concept was new to them. Step 3All people come to God through Christ, whose death destroyed the old barrier of Law and commandments making peace for all humanity with God. All that matters is Christ, because in Him all humanity is united in «just one new man.”