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Where does your worth come from? Where do you actually belong? What is still true about you on your worst day? This week we start a new 6 week series called "In Christ." Paul uses that phrase 11 times in the first chapter of Ephesians alone, because for him it answers nearly every question worth asking. Our text, Ephesians 1:3-14, is one single sentence in Greek, 1 long thought, 1 huge idea with no period, & Paul writes it as a poem with 3 movements: the Father chooses, the Son redeems, the Spirit seals. Diving into this dense passage, we will run straight into the greatest hits of church vocabulary, words like chosen, predestined, adopted & sealed, & we will let Paul define them out of his own Bible, remembering that God has always chosen one for the sake of the many. In the end, our hope is not only to find peace & confidence in being "in Christ," but to hear a calling to share God's lavish grace with the world around us.