A Church Sustained By God

The apostle Paul's opening to his first letter to the Thessalonian church(1 Thess. 1:1) underscores the reality that the church is the community of God's people created and sustained by Him. The church is not the result of human work but of God's.

1. God's founding messengers (1:1a)

2. God's people, originated and
   sustained by Him (1:1b)

3. God's active favor and restorative
   wholeness for them (1:1c)