...that when you received

       the Word of God,

which you heard from us,

you accepted it

not as the word of men and women,

but as what it really is,

        the Word of God,

which is at work

              in you believers.

              1 Thessalonians 2. 13

(The Word of God

        is at work in us.

God's Word

  changes us immeasurably.)