Christ and Culture at Colossae A Spiritual Breakthrough

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Christ and Culture at ColossaeA Spiritual
Breakthrough
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Christ Culture at ColossaeEvaluating Church
Health
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Christ Culture at Colossae
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Christ Culture at Colossae

• A Clear Warning
• I tell you this so that no one may deceive you
  by fine-sounding arguments. . . See to it that no
  one takes you captive through hollow and
  deceptive philosophy, which depends on human
  tradition and the basic principles of this world
  rather than on Christ. (24, 8)

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Christ Culture at Colossae

• So how do we break
• the paralyzing grip
• of our idolatry?

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Christ Culture at ColossaeThe Cultural
Challenge

• So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as
  Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built
  up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were
  taught, and overflowing with thankfulness (26).

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Christ Culture at Colossae

• The Question?
• Christ and culture at Colossae
• The Answer
• Be thankful. (315)
• Worship with gratitude (316)
• Whatever we dogive thanks (317)

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Christ Culture at Colossae

• What does thankfulness
• have to do with idolatry?
• ungrateful heart powerless
• powerlessness idolatry

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Christ Culture at ColossaeThe Power of Christ

• For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity
  lives in bodily form, and you have been given
  fullness in Christ, who is the head over every
  power and authority.
• Col. 29-10

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Christ Culture at ColossaeThe Power of Christ

• It takes less power to be baptized than to go
  through spiritual transformation.
• It takes power to appreciate spiritual struggles
  with a thankful heart.
• The desire for security in our culture cannot
  compare to our desire to trust in God.

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Christ Culture at ColossaeChallenging Our
Culture

• Raise our tolerance for spiritual painendure
  patiently (Col. 111)
• Always thankful (Col. 112-14 318f)
• Wives
• Husbands/Fathers
• Children
• Slaves
• Owners

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Christ and Culture at ColossaeA Spiritual
BreakthroughA Thankful Heart