Colossians Week 9 - Building a home | Sunday Service 10:30am

All Christians are invited into a new way of relating to one another. This section focuses in on families. Just like the traits we are told to live into in the previous verses, marriage relationships and parent-child relationships are different for the child of God. The contrasting natures we have been studying in chapter three have the most bearing on our closest relationships within our homes. Living out God’s call to consider other’s interests ahead of our own, to love as we have been loved, to give over or yield to the power or authority of another is impossible without His help and power at work within us. God desires health and wholeness for us individually and healthy patterns of relating to one another. As we look at these verses, prayerfully consider where you are feeling challenged, confused, or convicted. Let us tread with care that we not misunderstand or misapply what God is asking of us. Always and above all, let us not be moved from the hope held out in the gospel.

Prepare for this week's teaching by reading Colossians 3, giving special attention to 3:18-21