So from this introduction from this opening statement we already get a flavor in a feel for what call is having to address and the work that's before him for additional context and we'll get to it more and more throughout the letter what was important for us to understand is that for many Jews and we've talked about this mindset several times it was the same mindset that Paul brought in to his conversion and eventually was delivered from but it's this mindset that to be Jewish means to be set apart and so even though we are embracing this notion as Jesus as Messiah he's still our Messiah he still the Jewish Messiah and so if others are going to embrace Jesus as Lord and savior they need to become Jews that if if you are going to call Christ your king and your lord you can't do so without adhering to the law and so Paul gets wind of what's Happening in the churches in this region in and notice we see a little bit further a little bit further down there Paul is addressing several churches so this letter needs to get passed around and need to be several copies of this letter written because there are several churches in the area that this letter needs to go to cuz Paul is addressing a region not just a single assembly and the way that he was with his first two letters to the Thessalonians hear polish addressing the region of Galicia and the churches that are in that region and so we get this sense immediately just from the first couple verses that Paul's got some real work to do here to get these folks moving in the same direction and it's not an unusual phenomenon in fact we find ourselves in a very similar place today where we are trying to create these cultural tenants these cornerstones that are not Christ upon which someone's Christianity needs to be formed and to say it differently we are trying to prescribe what Christianity needs to look like and sound like. I credit my beautiful bride Rachel for this inside one of her major challenges with the modern church and and in particular with missionary work is that often times when Christian missionaries go out we don't go out to Simply share the good news we go out to try to conform in a simile other cultures and languages and people's to what modern Western Christianity looks like in the North Western Hemisphere specifically I'm talking about Western Europe and North America and so we are very arrogant and narrow-minded when it comes to how Christianity can be expressed because we think everybody needs to express it the way that we express it and there is little tolerance appreciation and almost never any celebration of the cultural diversity that exists within one's acknowledge recognition and worship after one Lord Christ Jesus we are struggling with the very same challenges that Paul try to address in this letter to group of churches that frankly don't look very different then many of the church's we see today.