In one way, L. A. Mott’s Thinking Through the Bible series is an apologetic aimed at producing and sustaining faith. Thinking Through John and Thinking Through Acts contain convincing testimony to produce the faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. But once a person has accepted Jesus, he can logically accept whatever Jesus taught, either personally or through his chosen apostles. At that point Ephesians and Colossians contribute to the apologetic for Christianity. Wise men of the world do not have a clue to the meaning and goal of history. But the simplest disciple of Jesus knows the secret, because the Lord Jesus has given him Ephesians.

     But when someone asks: How do you know that other religions do not have insights that we need for salvation and for life? Draw Colossians from the arsenal. For this epistle is a demonstra-tion of the fulness Christians have in Christ, enabling them to answer this question by saying: Because I know what I have in Christ!