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Is Jesus really enough? Am I missing something in my Christian faith?

The idea that genuine Christians could be missing something in their faith owes more to the spirit of the age (to hostile evil powers) than to the teaching of Christ (2:8). This Bible book was written to a church in the ancient city of Colossae and it has a powerful, pertinent word for Christians now in America. Like the Colossians, we can face threats to the purity and authenticity of the Christian faith. False teachers infiltrated this church promoting a “new spirituality.” The false teachers came in with the claim that they would complete and perfect the simple, elementary faith to which the Colossians had been introduced by Paul and his friends. This is what the false teachers always do. They say, “What you have is quite all right, and a good foundation for faith. Now let us just finish it off for you, and you really will be Christians.” It was this influential mood that was drawing certain Christian teachers, not to a greater spirituality as they imagined, but actually away from Christ. This fashionable mood could even masquerade as “discipleship.” Like the Colossian Christians, we need God’s continual appeal for loyalty to the truth that had first won our allegiance to Jesus.