Hello Colossians!

“A firm grounding in Christology, then, in its practical implications for the daily life of believers was the best defense against the illusory attractiveness of the Colossians heresy.”

F. F. Bruce

“In the gospel, God declares us presentable before he ever even looks at our record.”

Stephen Um

“To speak of Paul’s sense of “geography” is an attempt to describe the “place” where he thought Christians live. In Paul’s mind, just as these Christians live literally in the region near [Colossae], they also live in Christ. The terrain, climate, values, and history in which people grow up and live helps to define who they are. As really as this region near [Colossae] defines who they are, Christ defines who believers really are. He is the “sphere of influence” or “power field” in which they live and from which they benefit and are transformed. That is, his Spirit, values, character, history, and purposes shape their lives. People can live in other spheres, but Christians live in Christ. Jesus Christ must never be depersonalized by such language, but we will not understand Paul unless we learn to think of life as lived in Christ.”

Klyne Snodgrass

“They moved about Colossae “in Christ.”
They worked, served, kept the house, followed the business, met the neighbors, entered into their sorrows and joys,… suffered their abuse and insults when such things came—all “in Christ.” They carried about with them a private atmosphere,
which was not of Asia but of heaven. To them Christ was the inner home,
the dear invisible but real resting place….
And what a rich gain for poor Colossae, that they, being in Him, were in it.”

Handley Moule