I am initiating a blog series to, well keep myself on track with blogging. I'll be going through the epistle of Colossians found in the New Testament and giving practical application from whatever verse we look out. So stay tuned in and I hope you get something out of it.

Colossians was written to a very diverse church located in a central marketing hub. Colossae was located in the Lycus valley and was one of three major cities in that area. This city was important because this was a marketing and business hub at the time of Paul's writing. Paul never physically went there, but his influence reached there through Epaphras, who most likely heard the gospel from Paul in Ephesus and carried it to Colossae. Colossians is an amazing book because it deals with the reality of the gospel and the application of the gospel. The book is summed up in the phrase coined by Pastor Tulian Tchividjian in his book which is entitled, "Jesus Plus Nothing = Everything." The false teaching that Paul was exposing in Colossae was that of Judaizing Christians who taught that faith in Christ alone was not enough and there had to be some physical obedience from the faith. The error here is that the gospel teaches the exact opposite. We don't have to try to live up to some standard of moral perfection so that God might love us because he has already accepted us and saved us before the foundations of the world. Our wills and desires changed due to our status before God, not in order to achieve some kind of status. This is the power of Colossians that we will explore in our study of this wonderful epistle. What does it mean to live as if all we need is Jesus? I implore you to find out by applying the principles found in Colossians.