When I did an exposition of 1 Thessalonians, clearly not just the first chapter, but particularly chapter 2, was such a pastoral, you know, it's obviously like the fourth pastoral epistle. It's so gripping with regard to the Apostle Paul's shepherding approach, his intimate desire to be around the flock that is in his midst.

He obviously uses great analogies there, parenting analogies. He also talks about his character, and it's interesting that when he wrote 1 Thessalonians, as you know, he had no fear that he could be contradicted in the things that he said, and he must have said so many times in chapter 2, as you know, God is my witness, and so are you, as you know, just as you know.

So he'd been such a model in that midst, that he could write that letter without fear of somebody saying, yeah, but you really weren't those things. So that was a massive impact on the way I thought about, at the end of my ministry, could I write a letter back to the church without fear of contradiction?