Key Thought: Paul draws our attention to many practical, real life principles that are born of heaven and can be understood only by those who are spiritually minded.
March 21, 2026
1. Have a volunteer read Colossians 3:1-4.
- Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
- What condition does Paul indicate is necessary for us to be heavenly-minded? What do you
think that means? - Personal Application: Where are your thoughts: usually above or below? If below, how can we change direction? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What does it mean to you to be heavenly-minded? How does it relate to being earthly good?” How would you respond to your relative?
2. Have a volunteer read Colossians 3:5,6.
- Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
- How do we experience what it means to be dead to self and to earthliness and alive to things that are above?
- Personal Application: “What does it mean to mortify your members which are upon the earth? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your friends states, “ I have accepted Christ and have been baptized, but my sinful nature is always fighting the spirit in me. I don’t think it is easy to put to death a nature I was born with and is aprt of me. How can I gain victory over my sinful nature and kill it?” How would you respond to your relative?
3. Have a volunteer read Colossians 3:12-14.
- Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
- How are believers described and how does it relate to the qualities they are to put on
- Personal Application: How well are you representing Jesus in the way you treat others, even those who may be unkind to you? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your friends states, “What kind of influence have you been on others and what kind of influence does the church have on your local community?” How would you respond to your friend?
4. Have a volunteer read Colossians 3:16,17.
- Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
- What enables Christ to be in control in our lives and what role does music play in all this
- Personal Application: Whatever we do, do all in the name of the Lord. Can we say that we are doing that? What must you stop doing if you are doing all in the name of the Lord? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.
(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).
