Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Before we dropped in on Paul's letter to the Galatians, we were hanging out with Paul

and Silas in prison in Philippa and watching them get released, after which point the

local authorities apologized for imprisoning them without a trial since their Roman citizens.

Today they head for Thessalonica where they're staying with a guy named Jason.

Thessalonica is a big court city in Greece today with a population of about a million

people, except now it's called Thessaloniki.

It's about 100 miles from Philippa, which is about a 4-day trip.

By the way, Paul writes two letters to the church in Thessalonica and we'll read those

letters tomorrow.

The guys are in Thessalonica for a long time and at one point Paul spends a string of

three days going to the local Jewish synagogue to reason with them about the Scriptures.

He shows them how Jesus is the Messiah the prophets wrote about.

Here's one thing I find interesting about this.

Paul isn't just sharing his own personal testimony, even though he has a more compelling

one than anyone I've ever met.

Instead, he's sharing Scriptures' testimony of Christ.

It's true that personal stories are moving for many people, but Paul knows that subjective

experiences can also be easily dismissed by anyone who has a different experience.

So he takes a more objective and logic-based approach.

He's sharing facts, not feelings.

He lets Scriptures speak for itself.

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