The Importance of Pastoral Epistles

In some ways I've compared it and with the most recent rescue of the soccer team from the cave in Thailand, Paul, you can almost hear him exhaling in this letter. He sees himself as a father. This isn't a common experience. And Paul also at times uses, he mixes father and mother with his relationship with the Thessalonians. We so often think that the gospel comes in, does its job and then moves on to the next place. Once you're saved, we have a little bit of a peek into here about the ongoing nature of evangelism.