What the New Life Wears: For the Week You Did Not Choose

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A single Sunday from Colossians 3:12-17 for a church that can name Friday's news and still treat character as a mood that arrives after the calendar improves. Paul names 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, the word of Christ dwelling, ordinary work in the name of the Lord Jesus with thanks. God's chosen people put on compassion, patience, forgiveness, love, and gratitude because Christ has already clothed them, so the week they did not choose is worn in his name rather than managed in their own. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.