8 Reasons Why Every Youth Pastor Should Read 2 Thessalonians

1. It will focus you on the fact that Christ IS returning (2:1).
2. It will remind you that you and your students live in an age of mercy where God is restraining a greater evil that is yet to come (2:6-7).
3. It will assure you of Christ’s incomparably victorious power and ulitmate triumph over present and future evil (2:8).
4. It will raise a holy fear and sense of urgency by reminding you that God’s patience with mankind will not last forever (2:11-12).
5. It will keep you boasting in and depending on God’s work in salvation and sanctification in your own life and that of your students (2:12; 16-17; 3:3).
6. It will elevate the preciousness, power and purpose of the gospel (2:14).
7. It will give you (your graduating seniors and their parents) peace in knowing that enduring faith is a gift from God and a work of his grace and might in you and your students (1:11-12).
8. It will teach you how to pray for yourself, your students and your church (1:11-12; 3:1-5).