Pastoral Care (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Just a few taps on your smartphone can connect you to loved ones, even across the globe. Communication wasn’t so easy for the apostle Paul! Learn how Timothy became his “human love letter” to the Thessalonian church, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The In our day it only takes a few taps on your smartphone to be able to reach out and |
| 0:28.6 | connect with friends and loved ones even if they're across the globe. |
| 0:33.7 | But communication wasn't that easy for the Apostle Paul, and today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:38.3 | Alistair Begg considers how Paul's protégé, Timothy, became his human love letter to the church in Thessalonika. |
| 0:47.0 | Well then let me encourage you to turn back to the portion that we read here in |
| 0:55.6 | First Thessalonians as we return to these studies. Now the focus here as we have been looking together at these verses, actually since the beginning of Chapter 2 has been on the nature of Christian ministry. |
| 1:11.0 | And in this particular section, indeed right up until the end of chapter 3 we have a very |
| 1:17.9 | wonderful example of how pastoral ministry should take place? |
| 1:24.1 | The question is often asked, how should pastors treat their people |
| 1:27.9 | and how should people respond to those who are in pastoral ministry? And if we are in any doubt, Paul gives us a wonderful statement |
| 1:36.8 | here of how pastors are to serve both the gospel which they proclaim and the church which is the context in which those |
| 1:46.2 | who have come to respond to the gospel are then disciples and built up in their faith. |
| 1:56.5 | And Paul makes it very clear that pastors are going to have to be committed to the word of God and committed equally to the people of God. They are going to have to affect some kind of |
| 2:05.1 | reasonable balance between the expressions of truth and the expressions of love. |
| 2:11.3 | The context of the |
| 2:15.0 | expressions of love. The context of the letter is that Paul has received news of the Thessalonians |
| 2:19.0 | as a result of Timothy's visit. You can see that in the sixth verse we didn't read it but it's |
| 2:24.0 | there Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought us good news about |
| 2:29.2 | your faith and your love. I'm looking forward to getting to those verses, that's next time, but for this |
| 2:35.8 | evening we notice that Paul has been accused of various acts of insincereity. He's been accused along with his colleagues of |
| 2:45.7 | having ulterior motives in ministry and that's why in verses 2 to 6 of chapter 2 he |
| 2:51.8 | addresses those issues. Also as we saw last time |
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