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# Portrait of a Church (Colossians 4:2-18)
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005220portrait-of-a-church-html/
- Published: 2005-02-20T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-30T15:33:10.000Z
- Description: Prayer, a missional mindset, and transformed relationships are how a church lives out its faith.
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Colossians, Sermons, 2005

**Big Idea**: Prayer, a missional mindset, and transformed relationships are how a church lives out its faith.

**Purpose**: To encourage greater devotion to prayer, a missional mindset, and transformed relationships

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What do people notice about a church when we are just ourselves – not necessarily presenting our best face?

### 1\. Prayerful (2-4)

> a. Watchful – spiritually aware  
> b. Thankful  
> c. Praying for mission

### 2\. Missional (5-6)

> God is a sending/missionary God. The church is not a place. A church is not somewhere you go. “Church is at home, in the car, in the restaurant, the beach – wherever God’s people find themselves in their daily lives.” No withdrawal.

> a. Wise  
> b. Open to opportunities  
> c. Pleasant and interesting

### 3\. Relational (7-18)

> a. Tychicus (7-8) – service  
> b. Onesimus (9) and Mark (10) – forgiveness (12 years earlier)  
> c. Epaphrus (12) – prayer  
> d. Archippus (17) – encouragement