"How are you doing?" Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing . (Acts 15:36) What were they looking to see? What were they checking? As we enter Covid-19 lock down and have that same concern to find out how people are doing, what do we need to be most concerned about? Obviously we'll be concerned for how they're doing physically, financially and emotionally. That's completely right. That's love. But what specifically was the Apostle Paul concerned about? There's a window into his greatest concern in the first letter he sends to the Thessalonian church - a group of young Christians he'd been ripped away from and was desperately worried about. For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labours might have been in vain. (1 Thess 3:...
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