have already seen in this letter about Christ living within us. But it is quite possible that this reflects the more formal words a convert might have said at their baptism. In other words, it was a matter of public testimony. In the Roman world, that took considerable courage. It would often have social, political and even fatal consequences—for the world that Paul and the Colossians inhabited was very much Caesar’s world. He was its lord. So why would anyone risk everything like this? The reason