ENJOYING I THESS. 5:11-22...............

I so enjoy Paul's bullet points at the end of I Thessalonians 5....
a primer for healthy and sound Christian living.

Encourage, admonish, and exhort one another and edify
(strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing.

Hold your leaders in very high and most affectionate esteem
in intelligent and sympathetic appreciation of their work.

Be at peace among yourselves.

Admonish (warn and seriously advise) those who are out of line -
the loafers, the disorderly, and the unruly.

Encourage the timid and fainthearted,
help and give your support to the weak.

Be very patient with everybody,
always keeping your temper.

Do not repay evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness
and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.

Be happy in your faith and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always).

Be unceasing in prayer, praying perseveringly.

Thank God in everything, no matter what the circumstances may be -
be thankful and give thanks.

Do not quench, suppress or subdue the Holy Spirit.

Do not spurn the gifts and utterances of the prophets
(obviously referring to NT prophets as the Thessalonians
had no connection to or knowledge of the writings of the OT prophets. Selah!)

Test and prove all things until you can recognize what is good; to that hold fast.

Abstain from evil - shrink from it and keep aloof from it -
in whatever form or whatever kind it may be.