{"id":967,"date":"2010-09-21T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2010-09-21T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:56:10","slug":"follow-up-to-sundays-sermon-introduction-to-colossians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/follow-up-to-sundays-sermon-introduction-to-colossians\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up to Sunday&#8217;s Sermon: Introduction to Colossians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Ryan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/SEP_19_2010.php\">introduced the book of Colossians<\/a>, covering the context, authorship, and the theme of this New Testament letter, written by the apostle Paul.<\/p>\n<p>We also considered the importance of reading books like this straight through to get a sense of their unity and message. Colossians is, after all, a letter. Since this is actually a helpful approach to daily Bible reading, Ryan challenged us to read through Colossians once each day for the next week, then to do the same thing with a different New Testament letter after that. For longer books, like Romans, it may help to divide the book into two sections.<\/p>\n<p>To help you read through Colossians, here&#8217;s the outline that Ryan gave on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I. \u00c2\u00a0Believing\u00c2\u00a0in Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Preeminence (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvstudybible.org\/search?q=colossians\">Chapter 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His Preeminence in our Experience (1:3-14)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in Creation (1:15-17)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in the Church (1:18-23)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ministry (1:24-29)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>II. \u00c2\u00a0Defending\u00c2\u00a0Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Preeminence (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvstudybible.org\/search?q=colossians+2\">Chapter 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His Preeminence vs. Empty Philosophy (2:1-10)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence vs. Judaistic Ceremonialism (2:11-17)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence vs. Man-Made Rules (2:18-23)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>III. \u00c2\u00a0Living Out\u00c2\u00a0Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Preeminence (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvstudybible.org\/search?q=colossians+3-4\">Chapter 3-4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His Preeminence in Your New Identity (3:1-10)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in the Church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Unity (3:11-17)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in Your Home and Work (3:18-4:1)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in Proclamation (4:2-6)<\/li>\n<li>His Preeminence in Service (4:7-18)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Ryan introduced the book of Colossians, covering the context, authorship, and the theme of this New&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/follow-up-to-sundays-sermon-introduction-to-colossians\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}