Mission Hills Church
Seeing is believing. The breathtaking majesty of creation draws our eyes upwards in a search for our creator, but it is in Jesus we most clearly see what we’ve all been looking for. Join us for this eye-opening journey through the book of Colossians.
Our hope is not in this nation.
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:20).
Jesus has a plan for changing the world.
Colossians 1:7-8 NIV
The Holy Spirit is the presence of God working in our lives to make our purpose possible.
John 13:35 NIV
“Love in the Spirit” is a supernatural love made possible by God’s Spirit working in us.
Luke 6:27-35 NIV
If you're a follower of Jesus, you have a super power: supernatural love.
Too often in the history of the Church, our super ability has been a secret identity.
Colossians 1:9 NIV
The knowledge of God’s will is knowing that it is God’s will for us to love others as Jesus loved us.
Colossians 1:10-14 NIV
Because of our future inheritance, we're free to use our present resources to do good for others...even those who hate us.
What would happen if we committed that our super ability would never be a secret identity?
For the matter seemed to me to warrant consulting you, especially because of the number involved. For many persons of every age, rank, and also of both sexes are and will be endangered. For the contagion of this superstition has spread not only to the cities but also to the villages and farms. (Pliny, Epistulae, 10:96-97).
They asserted, however, that the sum and substance of their fault or error had been that they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of food--but ordinary and innocent food. Even this, they affirmed, they had ceased to do after my edict by which, in accordance with your instructions, I had forbidden political associations. Accordingly, I judged it all the more necessary to find out what the truth was by torturing two female slaves who were called deaconesses. But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. (Pliny, Epistuale, 96-97)
My super ability will not be a secret identity.
Who do you need to reveal your superpower to?