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

they're Roman citizens. Today they head for Thessalanika where they're staying with a guy

named Jason. Thessalanika is a big port city in Greece today with population of about a

million people except now it's

called Thessaloniki. It's about a hundred miles from Philippi which is about a four-day trip.

By the way, Paul writes two letters to the church in Thessalonika and will read those letters tomorrow. The guys are in Thessal Anica and we'll read those letters tomorrow.

The guys are in Thessal Anica 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 scripture speak for itself. Per usual, the audience is split.

Some believe and some don't. The ones who believe include Jews as well as a lot of Greeks

and a lot of female leaders.

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