By Mike Dawson
Pastor Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Columbia
Focal Passage: Colossians 2:4-15
During my university years in Greenville, S.C., I went to the city jail almost every week to share Christ with the prisoners. I’ve also had many times of ministry in jails and prisons as a pastor.
The prisoners often talked with me personally about their main focus: “getting out.” Almost every one of them wanted to see if I could (or knew someone who could) write letters in their behalf to hopefully speed up their “getting out” process.
We are now studying letters written by a prisoner. Isn’t it interesting that the prisoner himself never wrote about getting out? He always focused on getting out the Gospel! Today’s letter shows the Apostle Paul writing from a prison in Rome to his friends in Colossae about getting out the Gospel … of forgiveness. [Read more…]