A Model Church

Its been well said,

“If you’re looking for a perfect

church, if you find it, don’t join it, because if you do,

it won’t be perfect anymore.” There are no perfect

churches, because there are no perfect people.

Churches consist of people, and nobody is perfect.

But there are churches that are closer to the pattern

and model that God has given to us in the Bible, in

His Word. The church in Thessalonica was just such

a church. If we were going to look for a model

church in the New Testament, it would be the church

in Thessalonica.

Along with Paul’s letter to the Galatians, his first

letter to the Thessalonians is one of the two oldest

of his letters written around 50 A.D. about twenty

years after Jesus’ Resurrection, it was addressed to

the believers in Thessalonica, a mega-city of about

two hundred thousand people.