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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...

Doctrine (1:10–11)* In contrast to the erroneous doctrine taught by the false teachers stands the approved doctrine of the church. Paul intended the contrast to be obvious, and his description of Christian doctrine reveals three critical points of departure. What is the difference between Christian doctrine and false doctrine? First, as Paul describes it, apostolic teaching is the sound doctrine (v. 10). This is not an allusion to consistent and compelling logic, for all competing doctrines make
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