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a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10. they are exceptional: ‘ your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope ’ (3). a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10.

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a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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  1. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are exceptional: ‘your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope’(3)

  2. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are elect: ‘for we know, brothers, loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power … ’(4-5)

  3. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • their endurance: ‘… in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit’(6)

  4. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are exemplary: ‘and so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia’(7)

  5. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are evangelistic: ‘the Lord’s message rang out from you … your faith in God has become known everywhere …’(8-9a)

  6. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are emancipated: ‘they tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God …’(9b)

  7. a church with the right stuff … 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • they are expectant: ‘… to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead – Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath’(10)

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