Colossians 4:2-6
The final section descriptive of life under the rule of Christ turns the believers’ attention outwards in order that they might recognize their responsibilities to make the truth of the gospel known to those outside the Christian community
The final section descriptive of life under the rule of Christ turns the believers’ attention outwards in order that they might recognize their responsibilities to make the truth of the gospel known to those outside the Christian community
The final section descriptive of life under the rule of Christ turns the believers’ attention outwards in order that they might recognize their responsibilities to make the truth of the gospel known to those outside the Christian community
1. Speaking to God about people (verses 2–4)
2. Speaking to people about God (verses 5–6)
1. Speaking to God about people (verses 2–4)
2. Speaking to people about God (verses 5–6)
More likely the Colossians had grown sleepy, if our own experience is any guide: and such failure to ‘watch and pray’
Prayer can no more exist without praise than true praise without prayer: the one fuels the other.
Significantly, he does not ask them to pray that God would open the doors of the prison for his release,
Those doors might well open if only he would stop his preaching, for it is on account of this that he suffers. But, victoriously, the apostle asks for yet another ‘open door’, or God-given opportunity, so that he may declare the mystery of Christ
Those doors might well open if only he would stop his preaching, for it is on account of this that he suffers.
We may describe this difference by saying that while the apostle looks for many opportunities for direct evangelism and teaching, the typical Christian in Colossae is to look for many opportunities for responsive evangelism.
Always we must be praying that opportunities for the gospel to be preached to them will be given by God