Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter by chapter verse by

verse study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message and introduction to Colossians as we pick up in Colossians chapter

1 verse 1. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Colossians chapter 1?

The city of Colossi was in the area known as Pergia, a part of Asia Minor.

A couple of other churches are greeted by Paul in this epistle, and the epistle was told to be read also to those churches,

and that was the Laudocene church, and also the one in Hieropolis.

Paul had never personally been to these churches.

They had never seen his face.

However, the churches were probably started as a byproduct of Paul's ministry in Ephesus.

For as Paul was in Ephesus for two years,

and Ephesus is not that far from Laidescia and from Colossi.

There were those who came from these areas, heard Paul,

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