Band on the Run Bears Much Fruit

As we begin a new series in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, we will hear how the church in Thessalonica had quite the rough and rushed beginning. This was no well-planned church plant or carefully executed evangelistic strategy. Those who brought the gospel to them were quite literally a 'band on the run'. But they were a band with a song to sing– with a purpose and a message. Wherever they went they proclaimed the gospel of Christ. And despite the rough and rushed introduction to Jesus the gospel they received gospel came "not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit with full conviction." Only the gospel of God could establish a church in such circumstances and produce the fruit that we will hear of in the coming weeks. May the same word and power of the gospel be at work in us today by the Holy Spirit and produce the same fruit and full conviction.