1. The Scope of Salvation Colossians 1:15 – 20 Godisnowhere
Learning to Lament

2. Colossians 1:15-20
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 

3. Colossians 1:15-20 (cont’d)
18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.  

4. The Scope of Christ’s Salvation
Deeper and more intimate than the payment of a private debt

5. The Scope of Christ’s Salvation
Deeper and more intimate than the payment of a private debt
Wider and more pervasive than the rescuing of human souls

6. “
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, “Mine!” ”
THINK OF THE CHARACTERS DOT REFERENCED: EACH LIVED OUT THEIR CALLING TO BE GOOD NEWS WHERE THEY WERE.
HOW CAN YOU BE AN AGENT OF HEAVENLY GRACE RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE?
LOOK AT 3 CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF ARTISTS, PILGRIMS AND ACTIVISTS.
Abraham Kuyper

7. “In him all things were created” (16a)
“All things have been created through him and for him” (16b)
“He is before all things” (17)
“In him all things hold together” (17)
“And through him to reconcile to himself all things” (20)

8. The Sacred Secular Divide

9. SSD Syndrome’s Holy Hierarchy…
MISSIONARIES
PASTORS AID WORKERS
TEACHERS COUNSELORS DOCTORS
LAWYERS CAR DEALERS INSURANCE SALESMEN
INVESTMENT MANAGERS ARTISTS POLITICIANS FILMMAKERS

10. The Scope of Christ’s Salvation
Deeper and more intimate than the payment of a private debt
Wider and more pervasive than the rescuing of human souls
Better and more adventurous than our harp-and-cloud caricature of heaven

11. “…Wish I’d brought a magazine.”
Our Destiny…??
“…Wish I’d brought a magazine.”

12. Colossians 1:15-20
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 

13. The Scope of Salvation Colossians 1:15 – 20 Godisnowhere
Learning to Lament