Paul has shown the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ in chapters 1 ans 2. Based on that, Paul begins showing how Christ alone should be the person by whom we recalibrate our lives.

Let no one insist on a program of spiritual growth that doesn’t focus on the person and work of Christ. In him there is the fullness of spiritual life.

Paul wards off false teaching about attaining spiritual life by showing what Christian already have because of their union with Christ

How do you care for the church with prayer? What should you pray for? What should you pray for those you’ve never seen? What should you pray for and work for with those that are in this room and in your life?

Paul lays out the characteristics of his ministry as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and provides a pattern for all Christians ministry.

Paul shows how the glorious, incomparable Christ and the work he accomplished gives us hope that God saves sinners. Because we have been redeemed, we are not what we once were.

Grasping the glory of Christ will free us from our idolatry and cause us to rest in one, true God.

Jesus says the mission of the church will be complete before he returns. But what how will it happen? What does it look like to finish the mission?

Paul says that one of the things he regularly prayed for the Colossians was that they would live a life in keeping with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Paul’s prayer life and how it can and should affect ours as well. In these verses, we specifically want to see how the gospel teaches us to be thankful in prayer.