Week 10 | Pillar #4 - DiscipleshipConcluding our series by circling back again on discipleship, we look this week at Colossians 1. In this letter written from prison, the apostle Paul addresses false teachings that have emerged within the Colossian church – false teaching who are swaying many away. In this opening chapter, Paul reminds the Colossians who he is and what he has done for the believers in the region over and over again, before lofting high the glory of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, Paul deeply loves this church, and his passion remains what italways was, namely, to see them strong and mature in Christ – to truly behold him and be renewed!SERIES DESCRIPTION:We live in a culture where what’s new is what’s best. We like the updates, we like the shiny, we like the brand new. We like the smell of the new car, the peel of the wrapper off the package, of knowing that what we have is the latest and the greatest.To be sure we love the new, but what if the old was actually always the best. For that matter what if the old is actually only what renews, revives, and refreshes. That to be renewed requires going back to what has always worked.In second Corinthians chapter 3 the apostle Paul says these very important words:And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.He’s referencing Moses. Moses, who stood on the mountain top and talked directly to God. Moses, whose face shone when he came down and back to his people. Moses, whose life was never the same after he had met with the Lord on high. What if the pathway for our transformation, lay in the same direction. What if what has always worked works for us too.What if our renewal as a church lay in our beholding the Lord!Join us for a series where, as a church, we seek fix our eyes upon the Lord, and we seek to behold his glory and hearing from him directly what the priorities of our church should be. But get ready, because these priorities are nothing new, but they are every bit as transformative as they have always been!Join us as we behold and renew!
