The document provides guidance on countering heresy based on the book of Colossians. It advises to continue believing as when first receiving Christ and learning from Pauline doctrine. It also recommends growing through being rooted in and built up by teachings while changing from conformity to the world to conformity to Christ. Finally, it warns about beingware of anything not focused on Christ, such as philosophy, traditions of men, or conformity to worldly culture, practices, and ideas.

1. Colossians
How to
Counter Heresy
Lesson 15

2. I. CONTINUE AS YOU
BEGAN
A. By simply receiving Christ
Jesus
B. As students of Pauline
doctrine

3. I. CONTINUE AS YOU
BEGAN
Christianity is not intended to be
•A dynamic development of
doctrine and thought but
•The faithful transmission of those
things that were most surely
believed by the Apostles

4. II. GROW AS YOU HAVE
BEEN TAUGHT
A. Two terms speak of
stability and not changing:
•Rooted
•Stablished

5. II. GROW AS YOU HAVE
BEEN TAUGHT
B. Two terms indicating
growth:
•Built up
•Abounding

6. II. GROW AS YOU HAVE
BEEN TAUGHT
C. Growth means change, but
Christian growth is:
•From conformity to the world
•To conformity to Christ

7. III. BEWARE OF
ANYTHING NOT ABOUT
CHRIST
A. Philosophy and vain deceit
An effort to give men morality
without God.

8. III. BEWARE OF
ANYTHING NOT ABOUT
CHRIST
B. Traditions of men
Not the Old Testament but the
rules the Jews had written
since; Midrash, Mishnah...)

9. III. BEWARE OF
ANYTHING NOT ABOUT
CHRIST
C. Rudiments of the world
Basic conformity to the world:
•Its culture
•Its practice
•Its ideas

10. III. BEWARE OF
ANYTHING NOT ABOUT
CHRIST
C. Rudiments of the world
Basic conformity to the world:
•Its culture
•Its practice
•Its ideas