Paul again prays that the believers would come to know ever more deeply the love of God in the Gospel.

This passage goes to the heart of how we ought to spend our lives. Prisoners of Christ are paradoxically free to live lives of sacrificial mission.

The question of how people get along is one of the biggest questions in the world. In the gospel we find the only answer.

We could summarize the whole of the Christian message with these two monosyllable words set against the desperate condition of fallen humanity – “But God”.