What the New Life Wears: What This Changes Between Us

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A single Sunday from Colossians 3:12-17 for a church that can name the new life in private and still leave the old clothes on between two names. 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, the word of Christ dwelling as shared speech, ordinary work in the name of the Lord Jesus with thanks. Compassion, patience, forgiveness, love, and gratitude clothe a renewed community; the new life is worn between them, not kept as a private interior. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.