Bit more light hearted and easy to follow this time, although I do think we should go back to another hard one next.
What happens:
- Paul is writting to Titus who is in charge of the church in Crete.
- There are instructions for Titus on choosing good leaders and the kind of qualities they should have. There is also a warning against people who teach selfish things.
Meaning:
- v1+2 are interesting - it says we should have more faith and understand the truth better in order to have hope in God. Or to put it another way, if we have more faith and understanding then we will have more hope in God and His promise of eternal life.
- The guidelines for a good leader are pretty obvious.
Stuff for us:
- If we are lacking hope or trust in God we need to strengthen our faith and improve our understanding of God.
- Do we follow all the guidelines for good leaders? It is a good tick-list to see if we are effective leaders.
- v16 is interesting. There is a lot of debate about is it just faith that brings salvation or is it works. Here it clarifies it well and says that people claim to have faith but their actions do not portray this. What this means for us is that if we have faith we will act in a right way as a result of this. The actions verify the faith.
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What's going on?
Titus is in Crete having spent some time with Paul and is there to appoint elders. He's given clear guidelines as to what to look for - its a tall order but important as there are false teachers who may even mean well but are not right.
Titus is to rebuke them and probable share with them the truth of the gospel.
Also v.1 - 'Paul is a servant..'yet God uses him
For us to take away
- provides a useful list of attributes for good leaders - like the idea of entrusted by God to do his work on earth.
- We need to be accountable to others for that list and that we are on track and to attend to our weaknesses.
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