1 Thessalonians Part 2

http://499.924.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1-Thessalonians-Part-2-Jared-Ming.mp3 Model Leadership With Courage 1 Thessalonians 2:2,4 You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, in spite of great opposition… 4 For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. “When You Become a People Pleaser You Will Struggle To Be A God Pleaser” Ephesians 4:15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. Model Leadership With Pure Motivation 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6 So you can see we were not preaching with any deceit or impure motives or trickery. 4 …He alone examines the motives of our hearts. 5 Never once did we try to win you with flattery, as you well know. And God is our witness that we were not pretending to be your friends just to get your money! 6 As for human praise, we have never sought it from you or anyone else. Authentic Christianity is a product of Authentic Leadership Model Leadership With Transparency 1 Thessalonians 2:8-10 We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too. 9 Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you. 10 You yourselves are our witnesses—and so is God—that we were devout and honest and faultless toward all of you believers. Model Leadership By Parenting 1 Thessalonians 2:7,11-12 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children… 11 And you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children. 12 We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy…. Parents Feed Parents Shape Parents Teach Parents Keep Watch 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Therefore, we never stop thanking God that when you received his message from us… Parents Brag 1 Thessalonians 2:19 After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you! 20 Yes, you are our pride and joy. (NLT)