Welcome to part two with Professor Laurie Denning, Colossians.

There is another fantastic letter with yet another poem.

What I want to do now is Colossians.

This is one of the shorter letters.

It's also what we call a prison letter.

So let's do a little context to find out why I print the balls and prison yet again.

A little bit different is Colosse.

This is a little bit unique in that it's a short letter.

These are all fairly short.

I know we're making them sound like they're long, but you can read them in about two minutes

but Colosse is in what we would call modern day Turkey and it's

kind of central and it used to be a really big city, but it is quite small at this point.

And even today, if you go, it's just vineyards.

There's not even a building still standing in Colosse today.

So Paul never went there personally and he didn't start the church there.

So he gets a letter from a guy, a pacifist, we'll call him Epi.

He's from there and he's a member and he comes and visits Paul and present.

And he's like, hey, Paul, I want to tell you the good news about these members that you've never heard of.

But they're doing so great, but they're little tiny, tiny, tiny.

Now, there hasn't been a lot of excavation there, but we think there were about maybe three big homes

and you could maybe fit 15 people in each home.

That's like less than 50 people.

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