Walk Worthily
Walk Worthily I Thessalonians 2:1-12 Why is the Church here? Why I am here? Why are you here? ( Let me comment that the lectionary sometimes gets it wrong....should have gone to vs 12 today, so we are looking at that vs.) "...Walk worthily of God, who calleth you into His own kingdom and glory." The Apostle identifies what that means by his own example in vs. 10 " Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe..." 1. What does it mean to " Walk worthily"? As one commentator puts it, " ...Such a picture of a Christian pastor , drawn with such conscious sincerity and honesty, warns all the followers of Christ against the temptation of avarice and ambition and inspires them to emulate the courage, the purity, the tenderness, the self-sacrifice, and the fidelity which the apostle claimed and which all who knew him could testify he had embodied in his life..." Th...