1 Timothy 1:4, 6

Stay; to spread love. Jesus doesn't avoid sinners. God gives you the freedom to be who you are.

What do you do when the results of your life don’t turn out the way you planned for them to? Do you have a hard time struggling between owning the results of your life and trusting Jesus with the results?

We live in a land where truth is subjective, individualized, and culturally conditioned. That same troubling thinking had invaded the churches led by Timothy and Titus, so Paul's pastoral letters to them focus on the objective and universal truth revealed in Jesus.

The first of Paul’s three “pastoral epistles,” 1 Timothy focuses on the church as a “pillar and buttress of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15). In the letter, Paul commands Timothy to “guard the deposit” (1 Timothy 6:20) by combatting false teachers, protecting the flock of Christ, and structuring the church well. 1 Timothy shows us the incredible privilege of being in God’s church and the high calling of leading it.