Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi
The epistle written to the church at Colosse was one of Paul's prison epistles, written during his first imprisonment at Rome...the one where he was in a house with a guard (Acts 28:30), waiting for the appeal to Caesar, not the one where he was languishing in the horrible Mammertine dungeon, waiting for his execution.
Colosse was about 100 miles east of Ephesus, where Paul had lived and preached for about 3 years (Acts 19; Paul said it was three years in Acts 20:31). Apparently some folks had traveled to Colosse with the Gospel (among them was Epaphras, Col. 1:7) and founded the church there. As was typical, after the church was founded there were other folks who came in with twisted doctrines who were confusing the new believers, so Paul was moved to write to them, even though they didn't know him personally. So, we can expect to see Paul's brilliant discussions of the glory of the gospel and the dangers of false doctrine.
Counting today, lol, we will have eight weeks to poke through the book and see what we can see. Here's the plan:
May 7 - Col. 1:1 - 12:: Paul's intro
May 14 - Col. 1:13 - 23: The Glory of Jesus
May 21 - Col. 1:24 - 2:5 Paul's concern for the church
May 28 - Col. 2:6 - 23: Warnings against false teaching
June 4 - Col. 3:1 - 17: Living as a follower of Jesus
June 11 - Col. 3:18 - 4:6 - Living rightly related to others
June 18 - Col. 4:7 -18 - Final greetings and instructions
The next weekend (June 25 - 27) I will not be online...that will be The Flute Player's wedding weekend...I expect to be rather busy, lol. Kinda eye opening to see that the study will run right up to it.
But it should be a good one! Grab a 4-color pen and come along!
Let’s go!
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