Sometimes two people can be viewing the exact same scene, or reading the exact same text and end up coming away with completely different understandings. This can occur as a result of a confusing or difficult biblical text. Or, it can happen when we are unaware of some of the central underlying theological and grammatical elements of a text. In this sermon, Dr John Frederick, Lecturer in New Testament at Trinity College Queensland, shows how Colossians 3 is not aimed at the individual sanctification of believers as salvation solo-projects. Rather, the text invites us to reimagine our own path to holy living as one which is necessarily communal.
Colossians 3 is not the story of how I maintain my own, individualistic "personal relationship with Jesus". It is the story of how the many become one in Christ.
