Dear Church of the Open Door family, I just have to confess some jealousy I experience when I find out that my children are going to my wife and not to me on certain issues of life. Why aren’t they asking me first? Why aren’t they sharing that struggle or sorrow with me? What does she have that I don’t?…
In one of the most heartfelt of Paul’s letters, he writes his much-loved church at Thessalonica to encourage them to walk with Christ until He returns. Enemies of the gospel had forced Paul to flee the city, but they couldn’t prevent the Apostle from caring for and praying for these people he had poured his life into. Paul sent Timothy to check on the fledgling church and was so encouraged by Timothy’s good report of their growing faith, despite great opposition, that he sent this letter we know as 1 Thessalonians from Corinth.
It’s about learning to Be Who You Are. And Paul knows the more you know and live your “in Christ-identity”, the more missions will look to you like it does to God! That’s missions in Ephesians (and every one of Paul’s other letters, too).
