1 & 2 Thessalonians: Triumphs and Trials of a Consecrated Church (Biblia.com)

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The Thessalonian epistles give us relevant glimpses of the church’s earliest times. When looking at the early church many contemporary questions arise such as: • What is true Gospel? • How do you plant a church? These are questions that exercise our modern church just as much as the historic Thessalonian one. Paul’s first letter was written to encourage and reassure the Christians in...

in Athens (Acts 17:32–34), which were almost totally devoid of these characteristics, the evidence of God working in them abounded, just like Paul would know at Corinth (1 Cor 2:1–5). The gospel was preached with power (Rom 1:16; 1 Cor 1:18; 2 Cor 4:7; 6:7), such as had been promised to be associated with the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), so that the evangelists had much assurance that God’s word would accomplish God’s elective will (Isa. 55:11). They were not weak in their preaching; they were not devoid

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