Please be in prayer for our service on Sunday. This week we will discuss a particularly difficult passage that deals with a Christian slave's responsibility to his/her master and a Christian master's responsibility to his/her slave.
Of course, we know that the institution of slavery is a sinful, post-fall reality. I will argue in the sermon that slavery was NOT biblically sanctioned. So the Apostle Paul isn't endorsing slavery.
However, in the providence of God, even a sinful institution can teach us a great deal about the Christian life. Paul takes the most horrendous of human situtations to make the case that no matter your circumstances, the expectation is that if your life is now hidden in Christ (Col 3:3) where he is your life (Col 3:4), and the word of Christ richly indwells you (Col 3:16), you should, indeed can, respond gladly in your circumstances, no matter what they are because you aren't ultimate, Christ and his name/glory is (Col 3:17, 23).
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