The Apostle Paul tells the young church at Thessalonica that he and his team were related to this congregation as its spiritual mother and father. Both the tenderness of a mother and the encouragement of a father were needed by the community of new Christians as they grew in maturity.
This same principle applies to individual new Christians within an established Christian congregation, a reminder to mature disciples of Jesus that we are called to serve as mentors of the discipleship of others.
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