[Elsie]

Acts 17:11
Now the Thessalonican Jews were of less noble character than those in Berea, for while they received the message with great eagerness; they still checked with the ECFs every day to see if what Paul said was according to what Rome approved.

[imardmd1]

they still checked with the ECFs every day to see if what Paul said was according to what Rome approved.

Oh, yah, yah! My favorite passage! The one that compares the closed mind to the open mind, able to grow in the LORD! The Bereans were the ones who apparently didn't need any corrective epistles from Paul. Give them the Gospel and a Bible, and they're on their way. The Thessalonikans needed reminders about the rapture and the Man of Sin, not to worry, but be comforted by the Word. But they did come into line, as we ought.

And the ECFs -- those are the parasitics, right?