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Questions about the nature of Christian leadership and authority, attitudes toward wealth and materialism, proper responses to cults, the role of women in the church, and even the validity of the institution of marriage are not new. Paul addressed these issues in personal letters to Timothy and Titus as leaders of first-century congregations in Ephesus and Crete. What he had to say to them is as...

1. Nourishment from God’s Word (4:6). Perhaps the most basic of all is the first, spiritual nourishment. The good minister, the one who will faithfully and ably confront false teachers, will have been brought up in the Christian faith. This might be mistaken as limiting the ministry to those reared in a Christian family, but that is not the meaning. The image is of taking nourishment, and the present tense emphasizes continual action or lifestyle. However, this lifestyle is rooted in firm decisions
1 Timothy 4:6
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