Reconciliation for the Colossians (Colossians 1:21-23)

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But 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— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the

The One Who Reconciles (Colossians 1:20)

20 and 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. Christ is responsible for the reconciliation of all things in the entire universe. As Margaret MacDonald puts it: “Creation occurs through Christ and the broken harmony of the universe has been restored