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Give an example when an authority in your life decided something you disagreed. Did you support that decision or work against it? How do you feel about that now?

How often do you attend church (or stream at the moment) in a one month period? Would you classify yourself as "not forsaking the gathering of the brethren"? How has attending church regularly changed your life?

Do you strive to maintain peace within the body of Faith and Victory Church? Do your Facebook posts need to be edited? Is your social activism or politics more important than the relationships in your church? (not that social activism or politics isn't important)

Are you a member of Faith and Victory Church (rooted)? Describe a time where you had an argument, disagreement or negative experience at FVC. How were you able to move forward?

Are you "abounding" in Christ, having a general attitude of thankfulness? Name 5 things you are thankful for.

Order! Order I say!

Colossians 2:1-7

2 For I want you to know what a great conflict[a] I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, [b]both of the Father and of Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing [c]to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding [d]in it with thanksgiving.

Paul may never have visited Colosse but kept close tabs on it through Epaphras, one of his converts and associates, most likely the church’s founder and a leader. Paul saw a church of Christ walking together in Gospel order, steady in their faith in Christ, abiding by the doctrine of faith, and maintaining an honorable profession and warning and admonishing them to stay connected to each other and to continue to be rooted in Christ and built up in the faith.

“joying and beholding your order” or as the Greek renders it, Paul declares "I rejoice that I can see your order"

The Colossian church stood fast in one spirit, contended and strove together for the faith of the Gospel, fought the good fight of faith, no hardship moved them from their station; so that they were attached to the Gospel, and to one another; they were united to, and abode by each other; they served the Lord with one consent, and kept the unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace,

Ephesians 4:1-3 I, therefore, the prisoner [a]of the Lord, [b]beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

The church in Colosse was infiltrated by false teachers and they stood steadfast in the faith, opposing the false teachers and professing faith in Christ without wavering in the face of intense persecution and opposition from the surrounding society

To this outward condition Paul then subjoins the inner one, by which the former is conditioned: and the solid hold of your faith in Christ. That which has been made firm, represents the steadfastness and immoveable of faith in such a way,