[re]discover Colossians

“Reconciliation” Reconciliation means to bring together again, to make right.

“Reconciliation” Reconciliation means to bring together again, to make right. Changing a relationship back to what it previously was.

“For the creation was subjected to frustration, so that the creation will be liberated from its bondage to decay. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to our present.” Romans 8:20-22 “Man, the world ain’t supposed to work like this.” Danny Glover in Grand Canyon

“The wolf will live with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with the goat, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. … They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” Isaiah 11:6, 9 “…God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain.” Revelation 21:3-4

[re]discover: Reconciliation “Come on up! There’s new life! Trust me. Take my hand and follow me to freedom.” 1. Resurrection

[re]discover: Reconciliation 1. Resurrection 2. Incarnation “The death of an obscure Jew [Jesus] on a seemingly God-forsaken hill in a backwater of the Roman Empire attracted no notice from the historians of the era, but it was the event that reconciles heaven and earth and us to God.” N.T. Wright 3. Crucifixion

[re]discover: Reconciliation 1. Resurrection 2. Incarnation “When the lavish and generous beauty of the world makes you catch your breath, remember that is like that because of Jesus.” N.T. Wright

When you give your life to Jesus: You share in his resurrected life You join a new community (the church) You participate in his restoration You are forgiven

Praise the Saviour “Then we shall be where we would be, Then we shall be what we should be, Things that are not now, nor could be, Soon shall be our own.” Thomas Kelly 1806

[re]discover Colossians