Visual Theology – Ephesians
The Visual Theology charts are designed to help you see the structure and movement of Scripture. They highlight patterns, contrasts, and developments that are often difficult to hold together when reading line by line.
These charts show the structure of the argument. The accompanying articles develop each part in full.
This approach follows a long tradition of visual teaching in the Church. The well-known charts of Clarence Larkin helped many grasp the broad outline of Scripture. In the same spirit, these charts aim to make visible what the Word of God is revealing.
Charts and teaching notes for the book of Ephesians. Select a chart below to view the image and article.
About this chart set
Visual Theology – Ephesians. These charts are about the mystery of Christ, our heavenly position in Him, and the building up of His Body in love.
Ephesians unfolds a vision hidden in the mind of God from before the foundation of the world: the "mystery of His will." Unlike other Pauline epistles that address specific congregational crises, Ephesians serves as a grand unveiling of the Church—the Body of Christ. This corporate entity is not a mere continuation of Israel’s earthly program, nor is it a religious institution designed to rehabilitate the "old man." Instead, it is a "new man" with a unique heavenly calling, position, and inheritance.
This distinction is vital because many believers today suffer from a flattened, earthly perspective. We often treat Paul’s instructions as a manual for moral self-improvement or institutional management, missing the "heavenly places" entirely. We struggle to "walk worthy" because we do not first understand that we are "seated together" in Christ. To live by resurrection power, we must move beyond the ignorance of our actual standing and embrace our identity as legal heirs in the household of God.
The logic of this chart set follows the stewardship of the "unsearchable riches of Christ." We begin in the depths of eternity past with God’s hidden purpose, move through the finished work of the cross that abolished the "middle wall of partition," and arrive at the organic growth of the Body. Here, "ministry" is not a burden of labor or an institutional office, but a "life supply"—the circulation of Christ’s resurrection life from one member to another. Even the "Armor of God" is presented not as individual equipment for a solitary hero, but as the corporate stature of the New Man standing against the principalities and powers.
As you study these visuals, look beyond the data to the position you occupy. You have been quickened, raised, and seated. You are part of a living masterpiece, a holy temple built for God’s habitation in the Spirit. Seeing this reality changes the power by which you live and the confidence with which you approach the Father. You are no longer a stranger, but a fellow citizen called to express the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
These charts are based on the following books:
EPHESIANS: THE VISION OF BETHEL FOR THE ISRAEL OF GOD (Vol 1: The Foundation of the House)
Are you ready to move beyond a surface-level reading of Ephesians into the very heart of God's eternal plan. In The Foundation of the House, author David Benjamin unveils the book of Ephesians not as a mere list of bl...
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Ephesians: The Bethel of the Israel of God - Vol 2: Building with Sword in Hand
Volume 2 of the Ephesians commentary: from Ephesians 4:1 onward—the worthy walk as attentiveness, not performance. For the beaten sheep outside the institutional church.
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Every chart in this library is free, and it's going to stay that way. But while these are hosted freely, they are not free to make. A chart series might start at $15–20 in production costs, but by the time I've curated the output, reworked the logic, regenerated images that didn't land, and rewritten the companion articles — sometimes multiple times — a single series can run $60–100 in API costs alone, plus weeks of full-time work. The pipeline I've built that allows me to do things like this at scale is amazing, expensive to run, and rarely gets it right on the first pass. Most of these charts have been through dozens of iterations to get the theology and the visuals to say the same thing.
There's a long list of topics I want to build next — the everlasting covenant, our death with Christ, Christ as our reward, the mystery of the one body — material that's hard to access and harder to visualize. The kind of thing people hear taught once and say "I wish I could see that laid out."
That's what this project does. And if you've been helped by what's here, you can be part of what comes next.