This passage is not about the poor, and especially not the poor outside of the church. Paul makes it super simple and clear here in this passage; those who needed to be refused assistance were those within the body who chose to be περιεργαζομένους. Often translated in English to busybody, periergazomai means someone who unnecessarily intrudes on others to prevent work from happening, and particularly someone who meddles in others' lives intrusively. THIS person is who Paul is

There have been several events throughout America’s history that have been classified as revivals, and they all looked different and had a different effect on the land. But what does this word even mean? Where did it come from? What should it look like? That's what we want to explore for a bit today: what does a Biblical Revival actually look like?

1 of the strangest theological trends of 2023 was a revival of an old gnostic heresy, Docetism. This Christmas, lets counter it