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A 6 page paper that introduces the city of Thessalonica, a bustling seaboard city that was the center of Macedonia. St. Paul had to leave this city abruptly leaving the new converts without a strong leader. He wrote this letter to encourage them in their faith. The paper provides the background for this letter. A hypothetical response to Paul is then written by a young woman expressing her concerns, fears and confusions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: MM12_PG1thes.rtf
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This paper includes a basic description of the city of Thessalonica but this could be expanded. For instance, the student could spend time discussing some of the gods and goddesses
this person might have worshiped in the past.] Pauls first letter to the Thessalonians is the first letter Paul wrote and despite its placement in the Bible, it is
believed to be written either before the Gospels were written or about the same they were written, about 51 or 52 A.D. (NIV, 1995). As such, it is an important
document in the Christian faith. These letters were written at least five or six years before the great ecclesiastical treatises known as the Roman, Galatian, and the Corinthian Letters, and
with the Second Letter to the Thessalonians succeeded the first by only a few months, it shares the distinction of being the only letters before Pauls third Missionary journey (NIV,
1995). Paul wrote the letter to a struggling, yet vigorous church that was only a few months old. Thessalonica had a population of about 200,000, it was strategically located at
the head of the Thermaic Gulf and it was the capital of Macedoinia (NIV, 1995). Being such a commercial city, Thessalonica had a mixed population of Greeks, Romans and Jews
with more Greeks than the other two (Johnson, 1998). Paul began his ministry there in the Jewish Synagogue but evidence found in Acts suggests that the church was largely Gentile
in its membership (NIV, 1995). Pauls preachings attracted come Jews as well as some of the Greeks but others in the town were vehemently opposed to Paul and his words,
accused him of sedition, and created such a threatening environment that Paul and Silas were sent away to Beroea by their friends in the middle of the night (NIV, 1995).
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