Introduction 12 Thessalonians remind Gods people of the salvation he has secured for those he has called. When King Jesus returns, he will deliver his people and bring justice to the earth. Connecting Pauls letters to the Thessalonians to the lives of Christians today, this 12-week study encourages readers with assurance and hopepointing them to Gods faithfulness as they pursue lives of holiness and love in anticipation of Jesus second coming. Publisher: CrosswayType: PaperbackISBN: 9781433553851 ______________ Matt Smethurst is managing editor of the Gospel Coalition. He has served as both a deacon and an elder at Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and is now in the process of planting a church in Richmond, Virginia. ______________ These Knowing the Bible volumes introduce a significant and very welcome variation on the general run of inductive Bible studies. Such series often provide questions with little guidance, leaving students to their own devices. They thus tend to overlook the role of teaching in the church. By contrast, Knowing the Bible avoids the problem by providing substantial instruction with the questions. Knowing the Bible then goes even further by showing how any given passage connects with the gospel, the whole Bible, and Christian theology. I heartily endorse this orientation of individual books to the whole Bible and the gospel, and I applaud the demonstration that sound theology was not something invented later by Christians, but is right there in the pages of Scripture. Graeme Goldsworthy, Former Lecturer in Old Testament, Biblical Theology, and Hermeneutics, Moore Theological College
