How often do any of us sit down with physical pen and paper to compose a letter and actually send it to someone? In spite of our modern conveniences, this activity is relatively uncommon these days. Imagine a different era of history where paper was extremely expensive, there was no postal service other than your two legs or those of a trusted comrade willing to risk life and limb to deliver your message, the content of your letter could incriminate you, the message you had to deliver contained stern rebukes for the readers, and travel time and dangers increased exponentially over any significant distance. Given all of these hardships, the content of a first century letter could be significant indeed. In the case of the early church, this was God's providential method of preserving the gospel. Assuming the context of all these difficulties and setbacks for correspondence in the ancient world... what might motivate an apostle to send a letter to a church? In the case of Hebrews, the answer appears in out text today. This early church outpost was in danger of spiritual implosion. In the face of this great emergency of soul, 'Hebrews' arrived at its destination like overdue medicines to counteract the infection of looming apostasy (falling away from ones professed faith). Let us take advantage of this antidote ourselves if we show any similar symptoms in our spiritual lives today.