1. What pressures or dangers are these particular people, in this particular place, facing right now which keep them from being “rooted and built up” in Christ? What is keeping them from “abounding in thanksgiving”?
  2. What might be a unique challenge of this text is how our preaching of it might itself resonate with its mystery. It goes to a broader question: How can we retain a sense of the “mysterious” in our preaching of mysterious texts?
  3. Paul is giving thanks for the reality that the gospel grows just as much in the little places as it does in the centers of power.
  4. The glimpse of this final vision of healing has healed us before, it heals us here and now, and it will heal us again.

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