What the New Life Wears: The Practice That Makes It Visible

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A single Sunday from Colossians 3:12-17 for a church that can announce the new life in the sanctuary and still wear the old clothes in the hallway. Paul names practiced garments 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. The new life is already given in Christ; it becomes visible when this people put on compassion, patience, forgiveness, love, and gratitude as practiced clothes rather than a Sunday vocabulary. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.