Category Archives: Colossians

How to tell that Jesus has first place in a life

Last night I read the text of this morning’s Sunday School lessons in the upper classes in our congregation: Colossians 1:9-29. The title of the lesson is “The Preeminence of Christ.”

I had two basic questions:

  • How do I know — show, if you will — that Christ truly is preeminent in me?
  • How is Christ preeminent in my church? (What does that look like, as “they” say?)

Those give the same fundamental question different phrasing. I leave the question and its answers hanging here. Continue reading →

Complete

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.

Colossians 2:10

Reading:

Colossians 2:1-10

What is my role in keeping someone else from deceit?

What do I know about love and unity in the brotherhood?

How are love and unity connected to faithfulness?

“So walk ye in him” — how shall I do that today?

“Beware lest any man spoil you” — how can I tell that’s happening to me?

To what extent is my life “after Christ”?

What is it like to be “complete in him”?

[The Scriptures say in Colossians 2:7 -- Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving]
from Colossians 2:7
My brief Sunday School commentary for the May 9 (2010) International Sunday School Lessons.
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