Thanksgiving & Prayer | Colossians | Session 2

In this session, the teaching highlights Paul’s remarkable pastoral heart toward a church he had never met. Instead of beginning with correction, he starts with thanksgiving—anchoring the Colossians in the reality of God’s work already evident among them. From there, Paul lifts their eyes to the nature of true apostolic ministry, contrasting the grounded, servant-hearted model he embodies with the extremes and suspicions often attached to the term. He then turns toward the power of the gospel in their midst—its fruit, its growth, its grace, its effect on community love—and prays that they would continue to walk worthily, shaped by wisdom from above rather than the counterfeit wisdom pressing in from their culture. The session closes by centering on the breathtaking reality of redemption: believers transferred from darkness into Christ’s kingdom, called to remember where they’ve come from and what now belongs to them in Him.