Grief Share and Congregational Nurses Ministry.

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At the height of the Empire there were more than
50,000 miles of roads stretching from Britain to
Mesopotamia.
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Egnatian Road
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We are asking the question..?
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We are asking the question..?

• How was it possible for the Apostle Paul to go
  into Thessalonica for 3 weeks and communicate the
  core truths of the Gospel in such a way that
  people reoriented their lives and produced a
  strong church that touched the world?

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Paul presented a new God

• I. A living, personal God
• II. A loving, forgiving God
• III. A God who has the power to change you from
  the inside out

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Paul presented a Passionate Savior
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The Good news of Jesus

• Gospel

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives and loves you

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives and loves you
• Implication You are not alone
• People come up and tell us how you deserted the
  dead idols of your old life so you could embrace
  and serve God, the true God. They marvel at how
  expectantly you await the arrival of his Son,
  whom he raised from the deadJesus, who rescued
  us from certain doom.
• 1 Thess. 110

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• Implication As we get to know and serve Him we
  find our reason for being
• 1 Thessalonians 518 In everything give thanks
  for this is Gods will for you in Christ Jesus.

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• This God invaded history in the person of His
  Son.

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• This God invaded history in the person of His
  Son.
• Implication God has come to earth to find
  us give us hope
• 1 Thessalonians 58 But let us who are of the day
  be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and
  love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• This God invaded history in the person of His
  Son.
• Though His Sons death resurrection God rescues
  us for His kingdom and from coming judgment

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• This God invaded history in the person of His
  Son.
• Though His Sons death resurrection God rescues
  us for His kingdom and from coming judgment
• Implication He can remove our sin and save
  us from Hell
• 1 Thessalonians 59-For God has not destined us
  for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through
  our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us

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Gospels Core Truths

• A personal God lives
• This God calls us to know Him serve Him
• This God invaded history in the person of His
  Son.
• Though His Sons death resurrection God rescues
  us for His kingdom and from coming judgment
• Jesus return testifies to the promise that the
  history has an end and a beginning

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Implication

• History has a plan and a purpose and we can be a
  part of that purpose

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These simple truths transformed the Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 214
• For you, brethren, became imitators of the
  churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea

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These simple truths transformed the Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 214
• For you, brethren, became imitators of the
  churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea
• 1 Thessalonians 16
• When the Message we preached came to you, it
  wasnt just words. Something happened in you. The
  Holy Spirit put steel in your convictions. You
  paid careful attention to the way we lived among
  you, and determined to live that way yourselves.
  In imitating us, you imitated the Master.

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How did this happen?

• Truth taught
• Truth model demonstrated
• Truth believed

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How did Paul see such change in 3 weeks?

• He lived out before them the good news of Gods
  love