Metaphors are powerful rhetorical tools, but mixing them can cause much confusion. This message considers a possible Biblical Theological rationale for Paul’s intermingling of household, temple and garden when describing God’s redeemed people in Ephesians 2:19-22.

God is working all things for our salvation, but the path that gets us there is rarely that of least resistance. In Exodus 2, we find the crooked roadmap that prepares Moses to be the savior of Israel–prefiguring the cruciform itinerary that leads Christ to be the Savior of the world.