1 Thessalonians

Authorship
(Authentic/Pseudonymous?)
- Early church
- Modern church
- Paul & the Authorial Community
Silas Companion on Paul!s "
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missionary #ourney
Timothy Paul!s $ollo%er&on Paul!s "
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missionary #ourney' Timothy
#oined at (ystra
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person plural )er*s (%e)
Paul!s moments o$ distinction ("+1, %e- certainly .' Paul' did-)
/oint authorship o$ letters 0no%n practice not #ust a sin1le person
Amanuensis scri*es to dictate to/ %rite letters $or you
(%ord2*y2%ord' shorthand' 1eneral content)
2*ecause una*le to %rite'
2e)en i$ a*le to %rite
Authenticatin1 mar0 thru si1nature (" Thes+ 3+14)
2idea o$ presence thru letters
5ate
- 678 A5
- %ritten $rom Corinth
- .n Corinth durin1 Procouncilship o$ 9aleo
:ccasion
1+ ;oundin1 the church (Acts 14+12<)
A+ "
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missionary #ourney
=+ Thessalonica in Macedonian >istory
C+ Thessalonica in ?al)ation >istory
"+ (ea)in1 the church
3+ ?endin1 Timothy
A+ To chec0 on' to stren1then & encoura1e
@+ Timothy!s return&9ood ne%sA
A+ Thessalonian Christians modelin1 church $aith' hope' lo)e
- ?yna1o1ue $irst&/e%s $irst
- ?tart %/ ?cripture
1+ Messiah had to su$$er' *e raised $rom the dead
"+ /esus is the Messiah
ho% /esus %as the Messiah
- Main responders 9od2$earers (not $ull commitment)
- .n Thessalonica (Acc+ to Acts 14) Paul & co+ social unrest' riots
Paul le$t city & church youn1 in $aith
2youn1 in $aith' lost leadership' persecuted
- Paul couldn!t 1et *ac0 sends Timothy
Purposes
- Than0s1i)in1 to 9od $or their $aith' lo)e' and hope
- 5e$ense o$ the sincerity & pure moti)es o$ the apostles
(1 Thes+ "+4) youn1 children/ nursin1 mother
(9al+ @+1<) pains o$ child*irth
- Encoura1ement in su$$erin1
- Besponse to Cuestions
;raternal lo)e
The dead in Christ
The day o$ the (ord
- 5ealin1 %ith pro*lems&EDhortations
?eDual immorality
Eor0
(eadership
Prophecy