September 9, 2010
Colossians 2
Pastor Jon Wehner
Where and when did you turn the corner?
I’m not talking about the moment when you accepted Christ as your Savior. I’m talking about a time when you went from following a list of rules and regulations to a bona fide lifestyle of abiding in Him. It’s in these moments that we can clearly discern what it takes to walk in love and therefore be fully connected to “the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, and growing as God causes it to grow.” (Colossians 2:19)
Paul’s concern was that our Christian walk could be a self-generated, religiously robotic way of living out our faith. He reminds us that Christ came to destroy that philosophy and reveal the true nature of the Gospel message, “having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.” (verse 14)
So don’t accept any distortion of truth. It’s imperative that we live and abide in Him - fully knitted together as a body of believers – thus leading others to the revealed mysteries that lie “right around the corner.”
Pastor Jon directs Grace Covenant’s Monday Night Church and Fusion single adult ministries
