The letter to the Colossians was primarily written to correct false teaching regarding the Person of Christ. The problem the apostle Paul was attempting to deal with was the doctrinal heresy of Gnosticism… Colossians 2:6-10
Gnosticism was, and continues to be a philosophical, mystical, religious movement that is able to morph itself and blend into almost any religion (there are Jewish Gnostics, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist Gnostics, as well as “Christian Gnostics”).
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Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
