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Psalm 42- intimacy with God and Community
Anyone ever hear this phrase: “If God feels far away, guess who moved?†I heard that a lot growing up- And it was always thrown around to say that if God felt distant, it certainly wasn’t God’s fault- it was yours. I’m not sure that’s necessarily true… It may be that you have walked away from God, that you’ve ceased to pay attention to what He’s saying and have ceased to spend time being present to Him- and so you feel far away. But I think that sometimes, there’s something else going on…
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Col 4
This is why we say over and over- the church, this church, is not here for us, we’re here for it and it’s here for the world. Communities like this are meant to be a living embodiment of the message of Jesus.
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Colossians 3:17-4:6
This is subversive thinking at its best. This is nonviolent resistance to this broken world and its broken ways at its best.
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Colossians 3:1-17
You are accepted by God because of what Jesus did on your behalf and your trust in, your faith in Him. We are not accepted because we obey God. But, we obey God because we are accepted.
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Colossians 2:10-15
All the fullness of God- The complete expression of God to man. All that the unknowable yet self-revealing God wants us to know about Him, we know through the person of Christ...
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Colossians 1:24-2:10
Paul wanted encouragement and love for this community, but the big thing he wanted- for them to understand God’s plan, which is Christ Himself.
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Colossians 1:15-23
God in all His fullness was present to us in Christ. All that God is- Christ was, Christ displayed, Christ brought to us. And through Jesus, God made possible the rescue and renewal of Creation. Through Jesus, God made it possible for us to be forgiven, made new, in relationship with Him, reconciled to Him. At peace. All through what Jesus did- all through a death, a burial and a resurrection.
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Colossians 1:1-14
Deciding to become a follower of Jesus is literally being removed from the sphere of darkness, the empire of sin and evil and everything that ruins us and ruins the world and being transferred to, transferring allegiance to, another kingdom, the Kingdom of Jesus… the one who bought our freedom and forgives our sins.
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