{"id":7769,"date":"2025-11-30T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:17","slug":"clarity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"CLARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul&#8217;s final reference to teaching in Colossians is found in chapter 4 where he asks the congregation to pray for him as he &#8220;speaks&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His prayer request is twofold: First, that God would present opportunities, and second, that when those doors opened, Paul would be prepared to make &#8220;the mystery of Christ&#8221; &#8220;clear&#8221;:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison\u2014 4 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it seems the final lesson on effective teaching in this letter is that it does not just happen by opening one&#8217;s mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of effective teaching is clarity, and prayer is the facilitator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul&#8217;s final reference to teaching in Colossians is found in chapter 4 where he asks the congregation to pray for him as he &#8220;speaks&#8221;. His prayer request is twofold: First, that God would present opportunities, and second, that when those doors opened, Paul would be prepared to make &#8220;the mystery of Christ&#8221; &#8220;clear&#8221;:\u00a0 2 Continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,132,14,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-clear-teaching","category-good-teaching","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}