Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians (Summary)

I’m not finished with my blog series on annotations of gospel centrality, but I am finished with the book of Colossians. 🙂 Here’s the blogposts from this book:

» Colossians 1:6
» Colossians 1:21-23
» Colossians 1:28-29
» Colossians 2:6-7
» Colossians 2:17
» Colossians 3:1-4
» Colossians 3:5-15
» Colossians 3:16-17

I have attempted to make the case for the centrality of the gospel from an exegetical standpoint at a micro level, but I also see that it could be made from a macro level as well.

1:3-8      Praise for the work of the Gospel
1:9-14    Prayer for greater wisdom, walking, and working according to the Gospel
1:15-20 Person of the Gospel (Jesus)
1:21-23 Perseverance according to the Gospel
1:24-27 Purpose of God in revealing the Gospel
1:28-29 Passion for the Gospel’s sanctifying work
2:1-23   Polemic of the Gospel against all other shadows
3:1-4     Perspective-driven life according to the Gospel
3:5-4:1 Practical outworking of the Gospel horizontally
4:2-6    Presentation of the Gospel to the world
4:7-18  Partners in the work of the Gospel

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 36

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: It takes more to bug you, longer to rattle you and less to humble you.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You find yourself saying, “How did I ever miss THAT?”, about old familiar Bible verses.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t speed up just to keep from being passed on the inside lane.

A sign you’re growing in grace: The ability to pay for something is no longer an indication of its affordability to you.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re not arrogant, you just get bored quicker in churches without a heart for evangelism.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You use less confetti at your pity parties.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 35

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You realize anger is not the only emotion you can chose for responding to provocation.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When you overhear gossip but miss 1/2 of what was said, you don’s ask for the other 1/2.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re not as obsessive about getting credit, even when credit is very due. You chill more.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t use your brokenness and weaknesses as excuses, but as fuel to drive you to Jesus.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re not arrogant when you bring your “A game” and not despondent when it’s your “B game”.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 34

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: The more you love theology (the study of God), the more you love people (those made in the image of God).

A sign you’re growing in grace: You can recognize sooner when your anger at some people has very little to do with them.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t dump or stuff your anger as much. “Be angry & do not sin” makes sense. Eph. 4:26

A sign you’re growing in grace: The gospel of grace has freed you to tremble at God’s Word more than the law ever could.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When your heart affections for Jesus grow cool, you take that condition very seriously.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 33

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: When critiquing a theological position, you don’t use unnecessary negative adjectives.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You let people finish their sentences and you don’t put your meaning on their words.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re just as passionate about pleasing God as you are in resisting legalism.

A sign you’re growing in grace: People suffering from depression don’t duck when they see you coming. You’re more merciful.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You love your Christian friends, but you’re making more time to be with non-believers.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 32

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You realize, more than ever, you simply cannot & MUST NOT do the Christian life alone.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Your friends hooked into pornography know they can come to you for care, grace and strength.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t fall into gifts, smarts or looks envy as much as you used to.

A sign you’re growing in grace: The collective stories and wisdom of older friends has become a most sweet gospel nectar.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You not only treasure the riches of the gospel you obey the implications of the gospel.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 31

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You no longer promise or insinuate you’ll do stuff you don’t have time or intent to do.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When someone asks you how you’re doing, you don’t automatically say, “Fine”. You lie less.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You get convicted about your sin MORE because you feel condemned for your sin LESS.

A sign you’re growing in grace: The gospel has given you better tools for dealing with your shame and contempt.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re careful not to live vicariously through your kids. Their story is THEIR story.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 30

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: When people don’t “show up”, you don’t cop an Elijah attitude (1 Kings 19:9f).

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t confuse high self-esteem with beloved-ness in Christ.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You take “The ONLY thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love” very seriously.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You can even find Jesus in the Book of Obadiah.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When you’re well planned & prayed over schedule gets derailed, you fume & pout less.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 29

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: In the past 6 months, someone’s commented on your being more childlike or fun 2 be with.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re talking less but saying more.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re not one of those people in Starbucks who sits in the best chair for hours.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When at the grocery store, you don’t eat more free samples than the food you buy.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When in a grumpy, mumbling-under-your breath, touchy mood, you don’t blame others for it.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When you start gossiping, it tastes more like rotting carp than chocolate pie.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Prayer is more about fellowshipping with your Father than convincing him to do stuff.

50¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 20

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Monday: lapsus » fall, lapse (specifically, the fall of Adam and Eve from original righteousness)

Tuesday: gratia particularis sive specialis » particular or special grace (grace of God given savingly only to the elect)

Wednesday: rations aeternae » eternal or divine ideas (archetypal ideas or universals which exist in the mind of God and are foundation for human certainty)

Thursday: consilium Dei » counsel of God (the decision of God, the active & eternal willing of all things)

Friday: rectitude » rectitude, uprightness (the condition of man as created in the image and likeness of God)

Saturday: prothesis » purpose or plan; the divine purposes (e.g. Rom. 8:28)

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 28

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You no longer morph into a legalist or a libertine depending upon who you’re with.

A sign you’re growing in grace: In light of the needs of the world, you just don’t waste as much food as you used to.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t expend the same energy you used to just to be noticed or included.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You’re finding your place in God’s story, rather than giving him bit parts in yours.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You go to the harbor of God’s heart more than you harbor resentment, grudges and spite.

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 27

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: Though you don’t let anyone put you under the law, your love for God’s law is increasing.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Because of Jesus’ commitment to perfect his Bride, you stay engaged with your broken church.

A sign you’re growing in grace: As much as you’d like to have a church of you & your 20 best friends, you know that’s anti-gospel.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You no longer have to have either the first or the last word in a conversation.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t second guess your decisions, exaggerate your “wins” or obsess about your failures as much.

A sign you’re growing in grace: When sharing a meal with friend(s) in a busy restaurant, they have your full attention.

50¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 19

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Monday: Trinitas » Trinity, the existence of God as one in essence (essential) and three in person (persona) #Trinity

Tuesday: subsistentia » individual instance of a given essence (Latin equivalent of Greek hypostatis) #Trinity

Wednesday: persona » person (Latin equivalent of Greek prosopon); used by Tertullian to refute Sabellian heresy #Trinity

Thursday: tres personae in una essentia divina » three *persons* in one divine essence #Trinity

Friday: homoousius » of the same substance (consubstantial); term central to Augustine’s argument against Arius #Trinity

Saturday: paternitas, filiatio, and processio » hypostatic character of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, respectively #Trinity

50¢ Word(s) of the Week, Part 18

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Monday: opera Dei ad extra » the outward or external works of God (God creating, sustaining, & relating to finite things)

Tuesday: Theologia a Deo docetur, Deum docet, et ad Deum ducit » Theology is taught by God, teaches of God, and leads to God

Wednesday: misericordia dei » the mercy or compassion of God (one of the affections of the divine will) #sothankfulforthis

Thursday: foedus monopleuron » one-sided or one-way covenant (bestowed by God & exhibiting His will toward man)

Friday: praedicatio evangelii » the preaching of the gospel

Saturday: pactum salutis » covenant of redemption (intratrinitarian agreement of Father & Son regarding covenant of grace)

Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 26

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Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith:

A sign you’re growing in grace: You know “for better or worse & in sickness & in health” pertains to your church vows too.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You don’t just deal with your default sins of choice, but also with the idols of your heart.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You can tell when you’ve turned a legitimate desire into an idolatrous need.

A sign you’re growing in grace: You spend 90% of the day aware of your eye-logs & 10% of other’s eye-specks.

A sign you’re growing in grace: Marriage is becoming more about glorifying Jesus than fulfilling you.