What the New Life Wears: The Road Back After Failure

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A single Sunday from Colossians 3:12-17 for a church that can talk about second chances and still wait for the old record before it will put the clothes on. Paul writes clothes a renewed people already have: compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, perseverance, bearing with one another, forgiveness as Christ forgave, love as the bond, the peace of God ruling in one body, ordinary word and deed in the name of the Lord Jesus with thanks. Compassion, patience, forgiveness, love, and gratitude clothe a renewed community; the road back after failure is wearing those clothes because of who you already are in Christ, not earning a second chance by looking finished. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.