3. Their Walk. 2:7-12 The Gentle Mother. v.7-8 The Tireless Labourer. v.9 The Consistent Example. v.10 The Concerned Father. v.11-12 V.7 a) Cherished as a Mother - How he feed his children I. The Church of Thessalonica was a young church therefore Paul in this letter includes the family aspect in various ways. II. In this verse Paul shows that he was like a mother for them. In v.11 he is like a father for them. III. True spiritual maturity and pastoral care should be caring like a mother and mentoring like a father. V.8 b) Care Maintained - What he feeds his children True spiritual maturity and pastoral care is to lay down the life for the brethren. John 10:11-15 V.9 c) Contentment in Money Matters - They laboured hard to earn to meet their own needs, they also laboured hard to meet the spiritual needs of the Thessalonians - Double labouring. V.10 d) Cleanness Manifested - I. Their Blameless Balanced Behaviour among the Believers. They were like a mother that Bear her Baby in her Bosom. v.7 They Bypassed their own needs to Build them up. v.8 They were Busy in Burdening themselves that they would not be Bothersome for them. v.9 II. 3 characteristics of godly men. 1. Spiritual testimony - (Devoutly), Godward - upward. 2. Social testimony - (Justly), Manward - outward. 3. Self directional testimony - (Blameless), Selfward - inward. V.11 e) Comforted and Charged in Maturity - I. They were like a father to them: 1. A father exhorts. (Learning the right way) 2. A father comforts. (Loving the right way) 3. A father charges. (Living the right way) II. True spiritual maturity and pastoral care is to cause a right Learning, Loving and Living. V.12 f) Call and Mandate - I. To have a walk worthy of God they needed parenting from a spiritually mature person, in this case Paul parented them II. After having responded to the calling they received parenting.