This letter, penned by the Apostle Paul from prison, is written to a group of people whom Paul had never met, but who had started up a church community in Colossae, where they faced intense cultural pressure to turn away from Jesus. In his letter Paul focusses on the pre-eminence of Christ, how his own suffering in prison is for the exalted Jesus, various pressures that the Colossians face and a reminder to live the new resurrection life, the only life fitting for a follower of the risen King.