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Doing Life Together: Colossians 4.7-18 (ESV)

Today is our final message in Colossians, a letter to new believers.  It's about how we do the work we are called to do.  We don't always realize that Paul had a team of people around him in ministry.  Today we'll gain insight about Paul's team.  We're in the middle of basketball season.  Some teams have a superstar player that gets all the attention but we know it takes a team.  A team is only as good as how well they work together.  Paul tells us they were together in ministry.  Some of them were more out on the forefront speaking.  Others were behind the scenes.  Paul gives us insight on how to work together as a team to do what God has called us to do.  They were doing life together.  Paul was the first multi-staff church model.  We see different people doing different things as they do life together.  The first group Paul writes about is the pastors. Pastors do life together.  The word used here to refer t...