Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ...  The theological thrust of this expression is boundless.  The oneness of the Father and the Son, the deity of Christ, as well as the whole doctrine of the incarnation are securely anchored in a text like this.  As Cousins said, "Here, incidentally, is a powerful witness to the faith of the primitive church in the full deity of the Son."[4]