Bible Study on The Letter to the Ephesians - with my Protestant brothers

[DJDJDJ]

All,

  I'm in a men's group with several 'non-denominational' protestants.  We have been meeting for about a year and we started up with a study on being a leader in the family, we moved on to reading through Mere Christianity (my recommendation- as I wanted to get there wheels spinning a bit on doctrine and truth instead of feeling and worship).  We finished that up and now the group has decided to study through the Letter to the Ephesians.

   It's a small, intimate group of mostly young guys.  There's by no means any intellectual giants in the group (myself included).  My question is:  How do I get them to appeal to an authority outside of scripture for the study?  AND:  Do you all recommend any Catholic commentaries on Ephesians?  I found Thomas Aquinas' commentaries online.  I also thought about the Navarre Bible for Ephesians.   Any recommendations for books I could read along with Ephesians?

Thanks!

 

[EnglishTeacher]

All,

  I'm in a men's group with several 'non-denominational' protestants.  We have been meeting for about a year and we started up with a study on being a leader in the family, we moved on to reading through Mere Christianity (my recommendation- as I wanted to get there wheels spinning a bit on doctrine and truth instead of feeling and worship).  We finished that up and now the group has decided to study through the Letter to the Ephesians.

   It's a small, intimate group of mostly young guys.  There's by no means any intellectual giants in the group (myself included).  My question is:  How do I get them to appeal to an authority outside of scripture for the study?  AND:  Do you all recommend any Catholic commentaries on Ephesians?  I found Thomas Aquinas' commentaries online.  I also thought about the Navarre Bible for Ephesians.   Any recommendations for books I could read along with Ephesians?

Thanks!

To answer your first question, I would highly recommend “Scripture Alone?” by Joel S. Peters. You can find it here on Amazon.com. It is a very short, concise booklet, and the logic is thoroughly compelling. In fact, it was the book that first got me thinking about the Catholic Church.

 

[thistle]

All,

  I'm in a men's group with several 'non-denominational' protestants.  We have been meeting for about a year and we started up with a study on being a leader in the family, we moved on to reading through Mere Christianity (my recommendation- as I wanted to get there wheels spinning a bit on doctrine and truth instead of feeling and worship).  We finished that up and now the group has decided to study through the Letter to the Ephesians.

   It's a small, intimate group of mostly young guys.  There's by no means any intellectual giants in the group (myself included).  My question is:  How do I get them to appeal to an authority outside of scripture for the study?  AND:  Do you all recommend any Catholic commentaries on Ephesians?  I found Thomas Aquinas' commentaries online.  I also thought about the Navarre Bible for Ephesians.   Any recommendations for books I could read along with Ephesians?

Thanks!

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[mgull]

All,

  I'm in a men's group with several 'non-denominational' protestants.  We have been meeting for about a year and we started up with a study on being a leader in the family, we moved on to reading through Mere Christianity (my recommendation- as I wanted to get there wheels spinning a bit on doctrine and truth instead of feeling and worship).  We finished that up and now the group has decided to study through the Letter to the Ephesians.

   It's a small, intimate group of mostly young guys.  There's by no means any intellectual giants in the group (myself included).  My question is:  How do I get them to appeal to an authority outside of scripture for the study?  AND:  Do you all recommend any Catholic commentaries on Ephesians?  I found Thomas Aquinas' commentaries online.  I also thought about the Navarre Bible for Ephesians.   Any recommendations for books I could read along with Ephesians?

Thanks!

God Bless you for enduring this group with non catholic christians, a Bible study with non catholics has always intrigued me I just don’t see how it could be possible to do it and get anywhere with it.
No disrespect to anyone else’s recommendations, but I would stick to reading Ephesians instead of recommending books that would seem like you were trying to proselytize them. The Navarre Bible commentary is a must if you have it, and read through it before you go and highlight the parts of the commentary where Doctors of the Church make their comments about certain verses, don’t see how they could oppose something St. Augustine says, since after all he attended Church councils that decided upon which books would be included in the canon, and no Christian could historically prove against that.
Pray about the study too cause I heard that works.