QuickThoughts: Paul Prefers Texting

Even Paul preferred having difficult conversations via text rather than in person. 😂

📘 For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13:10 LSB

In all seriousness, he just wanted to be able to enjoy his time with his beloved spiritual children when he visited again, and not have to lay the smack down a third time:

📘 This is the third time I am coming to you. BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY MATTER SHALL BE CONFIRMED. I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

2 Corinthians 13:1-2 LSB

This entire letter (as well as the first one) are so full of Paul’s love for the Church, and this one in particular. He is such a shining example of how we are to love one another.