Verses: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:18 Leading Question: Is salvation God’s business or ours? In his final admonition to the Thessalonians, Paul returns to some of the same themes with which he began his letters. 1. God chose you...

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Verses: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Leading Question: Is the antichrist one person, one power, or potentially many? The second chapter of Thessalonians again returns to the question of the second coming and adds much more detailed information than...

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Verses: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 Leading Question: If someone sends a well-intentioned message that is misunderstood, what steps should one take to put things right? 1. Second Coming instruction, second edition.  Apparently Paul’s comments about the return of...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 Leading Question: How is it possible to exhort, admonish, and rebuke people so that our words will “reform but not exasperate” (6T 123)? Paul concludes his first letter to the Thessalonians with seventeen...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Leading Question: How do believers retain a sense of urgency and immediacy after a time of long delay? Already in the first century, some were losing their sense of urgency about the advent....

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Verses: 1 Thess. 4:13-18 Leading Question: How can the Christian’s hope be seen as a hope, not just a fear? In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Paul has given us one of the most specific and pointed promises of...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 Leading Question: When, in 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul urgently admonishes the Thessalonians toward sexual purity, is that a concern that applies directly to our culture and age? 1. Saying the nice things first. In the...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 – 3:13 Leading Question: When is it safe to imitate other believers? 1. The Judean Example (1 Thess. 2:13-16). Paul commends the Thessalonians for “imitating” the churches in Judea. And his specific point of...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Leading Question: Why should apostles – and preachers – be so careful not to be a burden on those whom they serve? 1. Boldness in suffering (1 Thess. 2:1-2). Why does Paul choose to...

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Verses: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Leading Question: How can Paul write a personal letter to believers he scarcely knows? As reported in Acts 17:1-10, Paul had spent only three Sabbaths preaching in the Jewish synagogue when turmoil erupted...

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Verses: Acts 18:1-3; 1 Cor. 9:19-27; 16:19 Leading Question: How does the temperament and personality of a city effect how Christians share their faith? In 168 BC, the city of Thessalonica invited Rome to take over their...

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Verses: Acts 16-17; 1 Corinthians 2-4 Leading Question: When opposition arises, how do we decide between fight and flight? After an astonishingly brief stay in Thessalonica of only three weeks, enough trouble had erupted that Paul found it...

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