John Jewel, Anglican bishop, write on praise of a church for their diligent love (1 Thes 1:3). The one who loves, underoes travails on behalf of the beloved, and lets loose some bounty. The Thessalonian church provided this love for saints in affliction, loss of goods, and banishment.
Has today’s conservative church forgotten love for the saints, as noted in the response to Christian Syrians?
How can you experience the travail of love?

!["I believe, further, that this passage [Luke 16:19-31] is meant to teach us the damnable nature of sins of omission. It does not seem that it was so much the things the rich man did, but the things he left undone, which made him miss heaven. Lazarus was at his gate, and he let him alone."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/372/739/147/139/303/small/2d514bbb16360c9c.png)