Teaching Sound Doctrine

 

“You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.”

—Titus 2:1

The role of pastors as teachers of God’s truth remains critical to healthy churches. When a pastor serves a church with humility and kindness, yet fearlessly teaches the Bible, the people are truly blessed.

The Apostle Paul had sent his young colleague, Titus, to the island of Crete in order to “amend what is defective.”

Notice these words of instruction from Paul to Titus in Titus 2:1-8:

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good.

In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

If every pastor would follow these words of guidance, the impact of the believers who sit under this kind of teaching would vastly increase.

May this become a reality!

 

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