This is our special Church Weekend together. It is extra special, since lockdown prevented our previous planned one in 2020. As we enjoy our time together as a church family, Andy Hunter looks at a model church we can aspire to follow. Paul, with Silas and Timothy, writes giving thanks to God for the exemplary church in Thessalonica. It wasn’t perfect, as Paul points out later, but it was a church that was passionate about Jesus and about making Jesus known.
This was most remarkable in view of the extreme violence of the opposition Paul, Silas and Timothy faced when planting the church, including lynch mobs. What hope for new Christians there? But the church there not only survived — it flourished! Why? …