[Kandy Atz]

Keep up the good work. I was away from the Internet for the day, but did scan through your posts this evening.

It amazes me that people can read the Gospels, Acts and the books written during that time, and not see the dramatic differences between what was taught then, and what was taught AFTER Paul revealed the Mystery that was Hidden in God in his Prison letters. Heck, if you are not shouting “Hallelujah” after reading the first 3 chapters of Ephesians, you may be spiritually dead.

[MHGinTN]

Yes! ... IIRC, Galatians, then the two letters to Thessalonika were his first letters to the churches of his mission service. When you look at how long Paul had with those folks, with that ekklesia, you realize that he didn't diddle his time away on social gospel, he taught them the deepest things of the Church Age and move on to the next town where God had prepared hearts to receive Grace.

We have one or two on these threads who insist we sink into the Laodicean mode of a social gospel, neither hot nor cold for the Gospel of the Grace of God in Christ, the Holy Spirit seal upon the spirit. Of such will the immediate embrace of Chrislam be fashioned. We are at the end of the Church Age, some say we should just try to all get along. That is contrary to what Paul was doing at the beginning of the Church Age, so we contend for the faith and try to alert souls that now is the day and this is the hour, for not many more are scheduled before the departing. This may be the final hour. Who can say? Tending flowerbeds in the yard while the house burns down isn't my idea of the Gospel for a perishing world.