“What is the gospel?” responses continuously return to an inward-looking faith instead of a faith that clings externally to the astonishing mercy of Christ Jesus, who took the sin of the world into Himself on the cross and breathed out His life for and onto His creation.
Well, it better be in Christ. Paul refutes the Colossian heresy by emphasizing Christ alone as the foundation of our faith, and how that faith is lived out through right belief and right practice.
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Paul wants to tell the church in Colossae two things: one, that Jesus Christ suffered for them and serves them, and that two, Paul is following the footsteps of Christ.