What does Paul teach the Thessalonians about how to teach the gospel to others?
“After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.” While at Corinth, he stayed with a Jewish refugee named Aquila, who like Paul was a tentmaker. To support himself as a missionary, Paul worked alongside Aquila and taught in the synagogue every Sabbath. In Corinth he had time to write his first great epistles, those addressed to the church members in Thessalonica. Here he laid out the key principles of missionary labor, the signs of power by which the gospel can be recognized in a world obsessed with covetousness and the philosophies of men a world very much like our own. First, he reassures the members that he is not just another wandering teacher, of which there were so many at that time: “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost” (1 Thess. 1:5). The witness of the Holy Ghost is the distinctive seal of gospel truth and sets it apart immediately from the teachings of mere men. To modern missionaries, the Lord unequivocal
