Welcome back! After taking the summer months off for the KSBC institute classes, the Builders are back together. I was excited to see many new and old faces in class last week.

To kick off the Bible teaching portion of our class we’re going to be studying the book of Colossians for four weeks.

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This week we’ll do an overview of the book and try to put it into some historical and biblical context. Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae really has a lot to tell us about who Jesus is and what false teachers are not. Once we understand that, then Paul provides some real practical advice to the Colossians on how to live their daily lives and ours too. If we increase our understanding of Jesus and then learn to live rightly we, by the power of the Holy Spirit, will be well on our way to becoming more complete Christians.

To steal a quote I once heard from a very smart man “Orthodoxy leads to orthopraxy”. Or in my language, right knowledge about God leads to right living. It is my prayer over the next four weeks we’ll come to see the book of Colossians as a prime example of this quote.