What does it mean to live worthy of the gospel? What does it mean to live as a colony of heaven? What does day-to-day life look like? I. A colony of heaven does not allow itself to be pulled away from the advancement of the gospel 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so…

Turning His attention to a new church and a new situation, the speaker adds a second message, this time addressed to the church in the city of Smyrna, about thirty-five to forty miles north of Ephesus. Σμύρνα (Smyrna) means “bitter,” certainly an appropriate description for the lot of the Christians…

27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, What does it mean to live worthy of the gospel? What does it…