Unlike Corinth, Thessalonica, Rome, Phillipi or Ephesus which were large cities, Colossae was a small town. By the time Paul wrote his letter to the church in Colossae during the first century AD, the town had become a small and insignificant place located on the road between larger population centers. Today Colossae exists only as a heap of ruins near the modern-day Turkish town of Honaz. It was likely destroyed and subsequently abandoned sometime in antiquity following one of the massive earthquakes that still plague the region. However, although the town itself has no continuing legacy, and very little historical relevance, it has been immortalized in our Bibles as the site of a church that received a very special message from God. God is still speaking in small, tucked-away, and in-between places. That’s something we know all about living where we do, and it is my prayer that God’s word would speak powerfully to us in our little town as we study His message to another group of small-town folks.