I Am in Christ Jesus

“A Saint”

Ephesians 1:1 (NKJV)

To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:

That is Paul's way of describing a church. There were plenty of very imperfect Christians in the community at Ephesus and in the other Asiatic churches to which this letter went. As we know, there were heretics amongst them, and many others to whom the designation of 'holy' seemed inapplicable. But Paul classes them all under one category, and describes the whole body of believing people by these two words, which must always go together if either of them is truly applied, 'saints' and 'faithful.'

~ Alexander Maclaren