Qualities of a Sound Church - Message 7 - Qualities for Workers. In instructing Titus as to the qualities that will be present in the lives of disciples when they hear and heed sound doctrine, Paul has given us characterstics for older men, older women, young women, and young men (Titus 2:1-8). Now in Titus 2:9-10 he takes the time to tell Titus what a life of faithfulness looks like in the life of a slave. Slaves were to obey their masters, to strive to please them, to treat them with respect, and in everything to be a model of a faithful Christian. In light of our propensity for rebellion this list of character qualities flies in the face of our lack of submission to authority, be it just or unjust. And so we breathe a sigh of relief when we read this text and rejoice in the fact that none of us are owned as slaves. We think then that this text does not have an application for us and we gladly pass it by as a passage for a bygone era. But wait. We can find application for the church today in this text. Rightly interpreted we see that our relationship with our employer is much like the life of a slave in the first century. Of course, we may voluntarily leave (or be fired), but we still have agreed to submit ourselves to the authority of another person within the confines of the company for which we work. And this text, along with a few others in the New Testament, tells us how we are to conduct ourselves while at work.
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Phillip was called to new life in Christ at age 9, called to preach at age 14, and ordained to the gospel ministry at age 20. He graduated from The Criswell College (Dallas, Texas) in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Studies with a major in Evangelism. He...