About this episode

Paul addresses the church at Colossae regarding false teachings that undermine the supremacy of Christ.

Paul catches word from fellow workers in the Gospel that the church at Colossae is wrestling with some false teaching that had entered their church. While the heresy is not fully identified, we gather that it had an inferior view of Christ, involved worship of angels and asceticism, and promoted man-made traditions. Paul directs their hearts and minds to give glory to Christ and to seek the things that are above, where Christ is. He is Lord over all Creation, and therefore, no elemental, created thing could be as glorious or as powerful as Him.

People in this episode

Host: John Ross

Topics covered

• false teaching
• worship of angels
• asceticism
• glory of Christ
• Christian doctrine

Keywords

• Colossians
• Psalms
• false teaching
• worship
• Christianity
• Paul
• asceticism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Colossae

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