We can see from the first two chapters of Thessalonians that the church was going through a difficult and turbulent time: persecution and false teaching had an effect. In this final chapter, Paul encourages the church to focus on what’s most important, how God wants the church to be.
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Who is the Antichrist, or the “man of lawlessness”? What will he be like, and how will he come? And what does that mean for how we should live?
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According to a recent report, Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world. Does this show that God is unfair and unjust? In this passage we see that the opposite is actually true.
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Evangelism has become a big talking point in the church – there are many books, courses, even conferences about it. And yet I believe the church has made it far too complicated! In this passage we see what Jesus’ mission was all about, and what it should be like for us too.
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In this passage we see two contrasting pictures – of faith, and of unbelief. What is it that causes people to reject Jesus, and what should it be like for us instead?
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What does faith have to do with healing, and – more generally – how we live our lives? In this passage we see two examples of people who demonstrated their faith in Jesus. What lessons can we learn for today?
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It can be very easy in the Christian life to get stuck in a rut – to turn up to church and do the same things that we always do, but just ‘go through the motions’. In this passage Jesus explains that we need to do things differently with him.
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In this passage, we see that Jesus doesn’t want people who think they are already good enough. He wants people who are humble enough to recognise they need him.
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Discipleship is all about the identity of Jesus – not in an intellectual sense, but a personal one: what does Jesus mean to you? In this passage we see the kind of faith that God wants us to have.
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The modern, Western, secular world doesn’t think anything exists apart from what you can see and touch. But the Bible speaks clearly of the reality of the spiritual – spiritual evil exists. In this passage we have a lesson in what that looks like and what that means for us.
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