Dear Least Important Church…
Before we jump into this week’s sermon I should probably give a quick review of the five that preceded it. Not the chronological quintet, but the previous pentad in the series it is a member of.
Today’s “Don’t Be a Sucker” is talk number six in “Dear Least Important Church…,” an expository look at Paul’s letter to the Colossians. The first five took us about half way through that book…and I highly recommend, if you haven’t already, that you listen to them (or at least review their sermon notes). I even more highly recommend you read Colossians entirely as we continue through it this year. Pretend you received it along with the original church. They didn’t, at least originally, go through it verse by verse…they likely excitedly read and heard it all at once!
Now, so as not to overly extend this intro (or the sermon itself) I’m only going to list the titles of the sermons plus their very final lines to give you a flavor. That will bring you up to where we jump back in today.
And, I should note, there has been about a 2 year interruption in my presenting the series…caused by a new job 3,000 miles away from the church I started preaching it in.
Ready to jump in? The five titles were:
- “Dear Least Important Church…”
- “Reacting to the News”
- “The Invisible Materializing”
- “Mystery Theater”
- “The Debt Collector Is Calling”
And, respectively, their final lines were:
- “Dear least important church, let’s talk about Jesus…”
- “Dear least important church, we pray continuously you keep your eyes upon Jesus…”
- “Dear least important church, Jesus is everything…and should be everything to you…”
- “Dear least important church, let me explain a mystery to you…”
- “Dear least important church, let’s talk about how we are going to take care of this debt of yours…”
In addition to those five, I did a “goodbye” talk for the Antrim Church of Christ that was not part of the series, but was connected. It was “Don’t Let an Earthquake Stop You” and ended with: “Dear least important church, I may be departing, but I leave you in far better hands…His hands…”
