Why We Do This

 I Thessalonians 2:3 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

In this chapter Paul talks a lot about his ministry to the Gentiles, particularly the Thessalonians. Why did he and his team do what they did? What were their motives?  It was not Greed or the Glory of the praise of men.  It was because God was Good enough to Give to them this Good News of the Gospel to share, and to Give them the Grace they needed to do so.  They did it because they wanted to please God. The motives of these men affected their methods: how they conducted themselves and their ministry: with Gentleness. May we always conduct ourselves in like manner.