Colossians Remixed

At Community, we’re going through the book of Colossians. While much is said about the profound position of Jesus in all of creation, as well as our lives, here is a great picture of what Colossians covers.

(Colossians Remixed-Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat)

In an image-saturated world,

    A world of ubiquitous corporate logos

    Permeating your consciousness

    A world of dehydrated and captive imaginations

    In which we are too numbed, satiated and co-opted

    To be able to dream of life otherwise

    A world in which the empire of global economic affluence

    Has achieved the monopoly of our imaginations

    In this world

Christ is the image of the invisible God

    In this world

Driven by images with a vengeance

Christ is the image par excellence

    The image above all other images

    The image that is not a façade

    The image that is not trying to sell you anything

    The image that refuses to co-opt you

Christ is the image of the invisible God

    The image of God

A flesh-and-blood

Here-and-now

In time and history

With joys and sorrows

Image of who God is

    The image of God

A flesh-and-blood

Here-and-now

In time and history

With joys and sorrows

Image of who we are called to be

Image-bearers of this God!