Episode 13: Welcome to the family
Many families divide, unfortunately, over issues of inheritance, and this was true even in New Testament times. The importance of inheritance goes back even further into the Jewish traditions we find in the Old Testament. It’s significant, then, that Paul uses the language of inheritance (Col 1:12) to tell the Gentile believers in Colossae that they have now been adopted into God’s family, and share in the inheritance of God’s people.
