1 Timothy 1:3-37

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

Paul gives Timothy a series of answers to questions that provide great help to the young Pastor. Those memos have been providing great help to the church for thousands of years. They can be a great help to us today as well.

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.