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1 & 2 Thessalonians—The Hope of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica to encourage them to live in the light of the gospel. In his two letters he addresses a number of topics, including the persecution they were enduring, the second coming of Christ, and how they were to live in the present times. While the letters were written nearly two thousand years ago, Pastor James H. Grant Jr. insists that Paul’s audience includes us...

Paul stayed close to this typical pattern in his letter, but he did change some things, and when he changed things, it was important. If a Biblical writer changed things from what you would normally expect, he was trying to communicate something important, and what we find is that Paul was trying to communicate something important, something distinctly Christian in this greeting. We could say that Paul was attempting to “Christianize” the letter opening.2 Instead of following the precise pattern,
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