INTRODUCTION TO COLOSSIANSHolistic Discipleship Col. 1:28-2:5

Clarifying the Win at Grace

1. Our goal is NOT to fill seats…2. Our goal is to make disciples…

Colossians 1:28-2928 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Colossians 1:29-2:129 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. 2:1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face.

What is so hard about ministry?

Colossians 2:1-31 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 2:4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

Any solution offered to any of man’s problems that does not acknowledge

and take into account Colossians 1:15-23.

Colossians 2:4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

Clarifying “Biblical Counseling”

Biblical Counseling

Gospel CenteredHolistic

Discipleship

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Being Equipped to Equip (Col 1:28:29)

“Biblical Counseling”

• 3 years almost 250 people taken Soul Care • 60+ people attended Biblical Counseling

Conf.• 35 people in training to be Biblical

Counselors• 13 people doing counseling/mentoring • Fall 2014 Hosting Biblical Counseling

Conference• Formed Eastern Iowa Biblical Counseling

Colossians 2:55 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

Be Equipped to Equip Others

• GTKG Lunch… April 6th or 13th

• House Church Open House… April 13th

• House Church Training… April 4th and 5th

• Biblical Counseling Conference… Oct

INTRODUCTION TO COLOSSIANSGospel Sanctification