Sermon Recap: Prayer. Bible. Church.

<p>Sterling Edwards and Brian Bowman discuss the sermon from Week 2 of the First Things First series.</p><p><br></p><p>Prayer. Bible. Church:</p><p> 1. This isn't "The Rules"</p><p> 2. But there is such a thing as Christian effort</p><p> 3. What do Christians do?</p><p><br></p><p>Colossians 2:16-3:4</p><p>Colossians 2</p><p>16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. </p><p>17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.</p><p>18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, </p><p>19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.</p><p>20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— </p><p>21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” </p><p>22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? </p><p>23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.</p><p>Colossians 3</p><p>1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. </p><p>2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. </p><p>3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. </p><p>4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.</p>