The Miracle of Change: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
In college, I was a business m ajor. I learned that the first three rules of business are location, location, location. If you build it, there is no guarantee that they will come. You must be where your target customer is. This is why Leechburg is home to four dollar stores, a Big Lots, and an Ollie’s, but not a Nordstrom or Whole Foods. What we find in the New Testament, however, is that the Apostles established churches in some of the worst places imaginable. One such church was in the city of Thessalonica, located in modern-day Greece. Thessalonica was the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia. Its citizens were fiercely loyal to the Rome and its gods. Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay There was, however, a synagogue in Thessalonica. Paul visited and proclaimed that Jesus was the Messiah, and how it was necessary for him to suffer and rise from the dead. Numerous people come to faith, both Jews and non-Jews alike. But the religious establishment did not t
