<p>2:5 <em>For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness</em>- Usually, itinerant preacher rocked up in a town, taught their ideas, and demanded payment or donation, using flattering words of gratitude. Paul was only two or three weeks in Thessalonica, but he was teaching what he knew to be desperately and urgently and ultimately true. His teaching was no cloak or covering over a covetous desire for money or adulation (:6). It is this desire for money and&nbsp;glory from men which has wrecked Christian leadership and the wider church.</p>