What is Your 'More'?

Colossians 1:1-15

INTRODUCTION

Actor Matthew McConaughey has a popular reel on social media currently. In it, he asks, “What is your more?” He is asking what you want more of in your life: happiness, joy, satisfaction, peace, and love. It's meant to be an inspirational clip that motivates you to seek the things in your life you should want more of. What is your more?

Of course, in our culture, that resonates easily as we are a society of more. We want more, more of everything. There’s never enough. Yeah, we want more happiness, joy, satisfaction, peace, and love. Truthfully we are never satisfied. We want more wealth and possessions. We want more stuff and zeros in our bank accounts.

And it seems that we want more than what the Bible says we should want or need. The growth of the prosperity gospel, fringe Pentecostal movements, feel-good gospels, and Christian theocracy point to a mentality that we want more than what the Bible says. This idea that more is better isn’t new. Paul saw it as Christianity beg…