Becoming - Colossians 3:12-17

Listen along as we look at Colossians 3 and meditate on the invitation to transformation.

Notes//Quotes:

Colossians 3:12-17 Zyler Reading

“Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person.” Dallas Willard

“How much misery we would avoid if we permitted “the peace of Christ” to umpire in our hearts. How many words we would hold back if he were the arbitrator in our lives. How many sleepless nights we would forego if we did that. How the Church needs this too, “since as members of one body you were called to peace.”
Kent Hughes

Revelation 3:20

“The Jesus way wedded to the Jesus truth brings about the Jesus life. Jesus as the truth gets far more attention than Jesus as the way. Jesus as the way is the most frequently evaded metaphor among the Christians with whom I have worked for fifty years as a North American pastor.” Eugene Peterson

“Spiritual formation is the slowest of all human movements.” - James Houston

“A black belt is just a white belt who never quit.” A saint is just an ordinary apprentice who stayed at it with Jesus.  John Mark Comer

The story of my life, which I am about to record, is one full of striking incident. Keener pangs, deeper joys, more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God’s providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than eighty years, and scene after scene rises before me, an ever fresh wonder fills my mind. I delight to recall it. I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvelous history of their rescue from the bondage of Egypt. Time has touched with its mellowing fingers its sterner features. The sufferings of the past are now like a dream and the enduring lessons left behind, make me to praise God that my soul has been tempered by Him in so fiery a furnace under such heavy blows. - Josiah Henson

Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it is a path along which we journey—in the deepest and richest sense, the way of life.
Kallistos Ware

“Your current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results.” James Clear