Beyond Everything // Beyond

We kicked off Beyond, a new six-week teaching series through the book of Colossians, with Mike Ferrulli. Before opening Colossians 1, Mike shared the results of One Day to Feed the World: 375 people gave, we gave $87,180 together, and through Convoy of Hope that generosity was multiplied to $435,900, five times the impact. He also shared three stories of how God met people in our church through the offering.

Starting with the engineering story of the Gateway Arch, whose two legs only held together once the keystone was set at the top, Mike showed how many of us live exhausted, trying to hold our marriages, families, finances, and faith together on our own. In Colossians 1:15-20, Paul points the church back to Jesus: he is before all things, in him all things hold together, he is the fullness of God, and through his cross he reconciles everything to himself.

Mike closed by inviting us to name one thing we are trying to hold up on our own, to pray "Jesus, you hold this together, not me" through the week, and to respond in communion with gratitude and surrender.