We have started our new study. After watching the introductory video, here is a little blurb from the "Leader's Insight" portion of the leaders guide:
In this passage (Colossians 2: 20-23) Paul is offering the insight that it is impossible to confront ingrained habits of sin head-on and win. We cannot control sin, no matter how tight our grip or how white our knuckles. Human will power is no match for sin. In fact, our will has the same deficiencies as the law: both are able to deal with only surface-level problems.
But we should use our pain. When on the journey of Christian formation we come to the end of ourselves, despairing over our inability to control the process of inner transformation through effort, we are most open to surrender to the indwelling presence of Christ and to the golden revelation that inner righteousness is a gift from God to be graciously received.
--Richard Foster
Please try during this week to read the daily scripture readings and practice the "Lectio Divina". This link may help: Lectio Divina
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