Colossians

1.      Has the greatest number who send salutations of any New Testament writing. Philemon has a goodly number as well. Romans has by far the greatest number of saluted people.                                    

COLOSSIANS 1

Jump Starters 2

Thanks for the Colossians 1:3, 12

Fruits of the Christian walk  1:10

How we get the fruits.

What’s to be done so we don’t lose it?  1:23

COLOSSIANS 1

Jump-Starters

1:4-5 a familiar triad

1:6  a sign of Christ’s return?

1:9-10 a mechanism for growth

1:15  “firstborn of all creation”

COLOSSIANS 1

Jump-Starters 3

Jesus is the “fullness,” and that makes all the difference  1:19

Jesus is the image of God.  1:15

Jesus is the firstborn of all creation. 1:15

COLOSSIANS 2

Jump Starters 1

Christ is the mystery (2:2)?

Two sets of problems at Colossae

“Shortcuts” for “walking” (2:7)

Relationship of covenants (2:14)

Marriage, parenting, and business are all interpersonal processes.

            These relationships are specialized IP processes that have additional features.

            Additional features must be added in such a way that they do not vitiate their                                 underlying interpersonal character.

Theory of Christian leadership

Companion passages:  Colossians 3:18-4:1; Ephesians 5:22-6:9

What subjects are involved here?

What is headship/submission (correlative terms)?

Theory of Christian leadership

Three primary means of impacting other people’s actions:

Evil/sin was defined as a kind of being/“stuff” rather than a way of acting.

     I. A combination of doctrines in one group, rather than two or three doctrines held by

      We do know about a highly developed form of Gnosticism in the second century, but that fact has no bearing on the date and content of Colossians as a Pauline production in the first century.