Notes from Set Your Mind:

Colossians 3:1-11.

1. What does Paul advise the Colossians to seek and set their minds on? They are to seek and set their minds on things above—on Christ (Colossians 3:1).
2. Why? Because they are living new lives in Christ (Colossians 3:2).
3. What do Paul’s lists of the behaviors the Colossians need to end reveal to you about their lives before they were raised in Christ? Their lives were marked by sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed. Their relationships included anger, wrath, malice, slander, abusive language, and lying (Colossians 3: 5-9).
4. How can setting their minds on things above strengthen individuals and communities of faith to eliminate behaviors that do not align with their lives in Christ?
5. What challenges do contemporary Christians encounter when stripping off the old self and clothing themselves with the new self?
6. What is needed to overcome these challenges?
7. In Paul’s day, barbarians were looked down upon as stupid, and Scythians were seen as cruel. Revisit Colossians 3:10-11. What guidance is there for overcoming the ethnic and racial divides in the church? How can you put this guidance into practice?

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