Part 2: What Matters Most
We engage in all sorts of ideological debates. Most of them are irrelevant (remember the “War on Christmas”?). But some ideas are worth dying for. No idea is more important than the identity of Christ. That doctrine was under attack in Colossae, which is why Paul wrote this letter. So what do people need to know about Jesus?
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
