Vineyard Groningen Sermons

The Colossean church had a big problem with two different cultural powers that were distracting them from their new life in Christ; the gnostics with their elaborate philosophies and rituals, and the zealous Jewish Christians who thought that also Gentile believers should live by the law of Moses. Paul tells the church in Colossae, in no uncertain terms, to make sure to live in the freedom of their new life in Christ and to not let themselves be taken captive again by some philosophy or human tradition. In this message, we are going to explore what challenges the Colossean church was facing, how Paul instructs them, and what all this means for us today - because even though there are 2,000 years in between, we face quite similar challenges in our world.