Talk

How One Word Changes Everything

Louie Giglio
June 21, 2022

Kicking off our second night of Summer in the City, Louie Giglio teaches through Colossians 1, illuminating the mystery of Jesus over the world’s allure of mysticism. While we battle with existential questions of who we are and why we’re here, he teaches us that JESUS + NOTHING = EVERYTHING.

Key Takeaway

Jesus + Nothing = Everything. We are not enough, but we are not alone when we have Christ in us.

  1. The goal of mysticism is to make you feel like there are mysteries greater than Jesus. But God is the ultimate mystery.

  2. God has a call on your life. Paul's call was to claim a mystery that no one even knew before him.

  3. The mystery of Jesus—Christ in you, the hope of glory. How do you fully blossom and are woven into the plan of God? It's Christ in you, not Christ and you. This isn't a tag team duo; it's Christ alone.

  4. Our mission is to proclaim Jesus so we can be everything we need to be in Christ.

  5. You are not enough. God is enough, though, and He is in you and me.

  6. If you join His mission, He will always supply His means. We have the power and strength of God, which is all we need.

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"The one who is was enough and is enough and will always be enough is living inside of people who in and of themselves are not enough. And the greatest confession I can make is, 'you know what, I am not enough, but praise God, I am not alone.'"
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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. Have you been a victim of mysticism? Have you searched for answers outside of Jesus?
  2. Do you sometimes act as if it's Christ AND you instead of Christ IN you?
  3. Do you feel like the enemy tries to thwart your mission often?
  4. What feelings arise in knowing that you aren't enough without Christ?
  5. Do you find rest in knowing that God will supply your every need when you join His mission?

Scripture References

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,10so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Supremacy of the Son of God

15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

21Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Paul’s Labor for the Church

24Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness— 26the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. 27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

28He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. 29To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.