September 18th, 2022 - Reconciliation Repeat

Scripture Passage: Colossians 1:15-23

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Reconciliation Repeat
Pattern for Life

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Real conversations and holding on.

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Jesus is Amaze-beans

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1. An Awesome Human Being
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

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2. Connected Creator
16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,

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All...in, through and for HIM
16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

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3. Outside and inside
17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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4. The Leader and the Starter
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

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5. Fully God
19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him.

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Punchline and Purpose
20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

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Stand in your status
21 Once you were alienated from God .... 22 But now he has reconciled you...

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Presented pure and free!
22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

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Stay the course
23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.

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It is out there, live into it
This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.