The apostle Paul - No fear of being contradicted
00:00:00.000 | When I did an exposition of 1 Thessalonians, clearly not just the first chapter, but particularly
00:00:11.960 | chapter 2, was such a pastoral, you know, it's obviously like the fourth pastoral epistle.
00:00:18.120 | It's so gripping with regard to the Apostle Paul's shepherding approach, his intimate desire
00:00:27.580 | to be around the flock that is in his midst.
00:00:33.580 | He obviously uses great analogies there, parenting analogies.
00:00:37.860 | He also talks about his character, and it's interesting that when he wrote 1 Thessalonians,
00:00:43.840 | as you know, he had no fear that he could be contradicted in the things that he said,
00:00:49.140 | and he must have said so many times in chapter 2, as you know, God is my witness, and so are
00:00:54.300 | you, as you know, just as you know.
00:00:56.820 | So he'd been such a model in that midst, that he could write that letter without fear of
00:01:03.320 | somebody saying, yeah, but you really weren't those things.
00:01:05.760 | So that was a massive impact on the way I thought about, at the end of my ministry, could I write
00:01:13.640 | a letter back to the church without fear of contradiction?