Tom Nelson writes: The Thessalonian believers did not become a monastic community or pull up stakes and head out en masse as Christian missionaries. These first-century believers saw their gospel stewardship through the lens of their vocations and stations in life. Having embraced the gospel, they were honoring Christ in the various vocations and stations of life they were in when they were called. The gospel was spreading like wildfire throughout the increasingly mobile Roman world, which was brimming