Love, Peace and Thanksgiving

Love, Peace and Thanksgiving
Colossians 3.12-17

Here’s the acid test for whether Paul is talking sense or not. Read again through the list of sexual and speech-related misbehaviour in verses 5–9. Then read through verses 12–17. Ask yourself this: supposing there was a town in which everybody behaved in the way described in verses 5–9. And supposing, a few miles down the road, there was a town where everybody behaved in the way described in verses 12–17. Which town would you rather live in?...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright