#biblefaith

Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2025-04-23

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?

JOHN JEWEL (1522-1571) "Exposition Upon Thessalonians" "And diligent love. — Love is painful, and full of travail: it thinketh not evil; it seeketh not her own things; it is bountiful. This love had the Thessalonians to the saints of God, which suffered affliction in all places for the Gospel's sake. Many were spoiled of their goods, cast out of their houses and banished from their country."
Greg Johnsonpteranodo
2024-05-02

JC Ryle, English, evangelical, Anglican bishop (why don’t biographers use proper punctuation?) on Lazarus. He says the passage is to teach us damnable nature of sins of omission.

Just read book recommended by Puritan scholar to young men. Quote by JC but nothing of duties to neighbor or poor or the suffering. Now that’s certainly an omission!

How can you be aware of sufferers that you might be accounted as “leaving alone”?

"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."

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