| David Cassady
Adult
• 4 Sessions of Learner’s Materials
• 4 Sessions of Teaching Materials
• 2 Handouts
1. Colossians 1:15-23
2. Colossians 2:8-23
3. Colossians 3:1-17
4. Colossians 4:1-6
A short letter from an imprisoned Apostle to a young church in Colossae is the seedbed for a rich collection of insights. The issues will sound familiar to today’s Christians: Who is a true teacher and who is a false teacher, and how does one tell the difference? What beliefs are truly at the core of Christian faith? How do we begin to understand our existence in the universe? How can earthly humans even begin to relate to a spiritual being like God? What difference do our conversion and redemption make in the way we live? How should we treat one another within the church and even outside the church?
Paul’s letter to the Colossians begins with a high-minded philosophical defense of the faith, but concludes with a collection of extremely practical advice for living by faith. Even with such a clear picture of the life of faith, the Christian’s task is no less difficult, but with the grace and presence of God, it is unarguably worth living.
A part of the NextSunday Resources line of adult Bible studies, Colossians: Living the Faith Faithfully contains four lessons for use as individual study or group discussion. Each study contains lessons on the biblical material, combined with an additional commentary from an alternate, but complementary, viewpoint.
David Cassady is the author of the Colossians: Living the Faith Faithfully study. He is the New Media Strategist at The Brainstorm Lab and serves as the director of The Faith Lab. He brings over 15 years of experience in Christian publishing, a doctorate in Christian Education, and has served as minister in churches in Arkansas and Kentucky.
Cecil Sherman is the commentary writer for Colossians: Living the Faith Faithfully. A native of Fort Worth Texas, he has pastored churches in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey. He has most recently served as visiting professor of pastoral ministries at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. He is the author of the five-volume Formations Commentary series and the autobiography By My Own Reckoning.
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