Introduction
This chapter is about the formation of the church. Not often think must about how church came to be, how God formed the church, fashioned the church, one by one, individually, yet built together.
Starts with bad news. Received a gift--good news, but the very fact that we so desperately needed that gift is overwhelming.

I.  Our need for the gift, 1-3
    dead... in sin
		individualism
		lust, sin
		expecting God's wrath

II.  The source of the gift, 4
	God rich in love and mercy

III.  The nature of the gift, 5-6
	saved--raised--seated

IV.  The result of the gift, 8-10
	God's kindness is made known
	God's initiative and lordship is made known
	God's pieta--workmanship
		God is at work, reversing 2:11-12
		Peace with God
		Peace with one another
	God's church!