1. Riches: Look at verses 2-4. What does Paul communicate as being the key to reaching the riches of full assurance and understanding God’s mystery? How does one obtain them? What do these riches do to us?
2. Rooted: If these riches allow us not to be deluded (v. 4), then what do they allow (vs. 6-8)? What does life look like when someone understands the mystery of God and has found the “hidden treasure”?
3. Filled: What does it mean that the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily in Christ (v. 9)? What does it mean then that we, too, have been filled (v. 10)?
4. Raised: In verse 12 Paul says we have been buried and raised to life through faith by the powerful working of God. What life? What ideas from what Paul has written describe the type of life believers have been raised to?
5. Freedom: How does this life (described in question 4) fly in the face of human precept and teachings (v. 22)? What does this life free believers to do or understand?
6. Christ: How did Christ live a filled life? It is God-like that he would not only satisfy human rules, but also live in accordance with higher spiritual rootedness. How can we too live blameless and undeluded lives according to human laws, while having our sights set on higher and deeper riches? How did Christ do it?
Homework Bonus:
Read Colossians 2:6-15 and meditate on what it means to be rooted and built up in Christ.