The Importance Of Agonising Over Others – I am sure we have all experienced those moments when we are down, struggling in a battle, weary from life, and someone comes along and gives a word or two of encouragement and suddenly you are lifted and ready to take on whatever is in front of you. This is why Paul is explaining the importance of agonising over each other, as he did over the church in Colossae, a church that was being discouraged from all that was going on in their lives, through attack and false teaching.