Title: A Warm Greeting (1)
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:1-2
Don't you like to receive a letter? As you open it you wonder why they wrote it and what they are going to tell you in it.
Letters, which are the most personal form of communication are nothing new. Excavations have discovered fragments of letters dating back more than 4,000 years to the time of Abraham.
In the ancient world, papyrus was the material on which most documents were written. It was composed of strips of bulrush which grew along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. These stripes were laid one on top of the other to form a material like brown paper. The dry climate of the Egyptian desert preserved these brittle papyrus documents so that archaeologists have found hundreds of them including marriage contracts, legal agreements, government forms and private letters.
Letters were the main source of communication between people who were separated by distance before the early 1900's with the invention of the telephone. So, it is not surprising that of the 27 books in the N.T. 22 were letters written to churches and to individuals to encourage and challenge them in their faith.
A letter is personal and tends to address a specific situation or problem because of a relationship which has been established.
Technically an epistle is a formal letter which is intended to be self-explanatory because it is to be read to the public even if they don't know the writer.
Most of Paul's letters were written to meet some specific situation which was threatening a church because of some problem in it. These letters were not meant to be theological treatise, but documents written by an apostle to encourage fellow believers in their walk with their Savior Jesus Christ even though they contain theological truth.
BACKGROUND
Four of these letters, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon were written between 60-62 AD while Paul was under house ar ...
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:1-2
Don't you like to receive a letter? As you open it you wonder why they wrote it and what they are going to tell you in it.
Letters, which are the most personal form of communication are nothing new. Excavations have discovered fragments of letters dating back more than 4,000 years to the time of Abraham.
In the ancient world, papyrus was the material on which most documents were written. It was composed of strips of bulrush which grew along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. These stripes were laid one on top of the other to form a material like brown paper. The dry climate of the Egyptian desert preserved these brittle papyrus documents so that archaeologists have found hundreds of them including marriage contracts, legal agreements, government forms and private letters.
Letters were the main source of communication between people who were separated by distance before the early 1900's with the invention of the telephone. So, it is not surprising that of the 27 books in the N.T. 22 were letters written to churches and to individuals to encourage and challenge them in their faith.
A letter is personal and tends to address a specific situation or problem because of a relationship which has been established.
Technically an epistle is a formal letter which is intended to be self-explanatory because it is to be read to the public even if they don't know the writer.
Most of Paul's letters were written to meet some specific situation which was threatening a church because of some problem in it. These letters were not meant to be theological treatise, but documents written by an apostle to encourage fellow believers in their walk with their Savior Jesus Christ even though they contain theological truth.
BACKGROUND
Four of these letters, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon were written between 60-62 AD while Paul was under house ar ...
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