Thoughts on I Thessalonians 2: Being worthy of immitation

In the first chapter, Paul emphasized the importance of the church imitating good sources so they could be a good example to others.  In the second chapter Paul spells out some of what is involved in being worthy of imitation.  To save time, I'm going to simply list a few things in the chapter that are worthy of imitation:

1. Not being slick salespeople.
2. Not being glory hounds.
3. Caring for others with the nurturing love of the mother of a newborn
4. Hard work in sharing the Gospel
5. Hard work in caring for their own physical needs
6. Living blamelessly before others
7. Suffering for Christ

That is quite the list, and, when I think about it, a hard one to emulate.