OLS Young Adult Ministry Proudly Presents A Faith Sharing Program:

SPIRITUAL BASICS 101

WEEK ONE: Who is Christ?

 

Colossians 1, 15-23

The PREEMNINENCE OF CHRIST

 

15He is the image of the invisible God,

the firstborn of all creation;

16for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created,

things visible and invisible,

whether thrones or dominions

or rulers or powers –

all things have been created

through him and for him.

17He himself is before all things,

and in him all things hold together.

18He is the head of the body, the church;

he is the beginning,

The firstborn from the dead,

so that he might come to have first place in everything.

19For in him all the fullness of God

was pleased to dwell,

20and through him God was pleased

to reconcile to himself all things,

whether on earth or in heaven,

by making peace

through the blood of his cross.

21And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing

evil deeds,22he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through

death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable

before him – 23provided that you continue securely established and

steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by

the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every

creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel.