What conventions do you use when addressing people either in person, by letter or by some modern electronic system of communication? How do you attend to the emotional impact of what you say? Do you see Paul working in any analogous way with his Thessalonian congregation?
Are there people in your life to whom you look as models of either behavior or faith? Are they ways in which you try to serve as a model for others to imitate?
Do you have a sense that as members of a Christian congregation you have been “chosen” or “elect”? What are the implications of that belief?