Date: February 20-21, 2021
Speaker: Pastor Larry Hasmatali
Series: All In
Title: Do This, Don’t Do That

Discussion Questions

(1) Are there any practices that you do today that came from an adherence to a religious practice? For example, not eating meat on Fridays?

(2) Do you agree or disagree that Mysticism is becoming more and more accepted in North American society today?

(3) Do you feel the church today has watered down the gospel and become too much like the world, or do you see us now being better at welcoming and accepting people?

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: ‘Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!’? These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence. —Colossians 2:16-23