# 3 2020 Devotion, Titus 1:6. What is true! Read all of chapter 1. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw Gremar and I closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Titus 1:6 “An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believeand are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.”
Titus is one of Paul’s Gentile converts who worked along side Paul as a father and son. “To Titus, my true son in our common faith.” Paul left Titus in Crete to organize the converts, to emphasize the true gospel, correct the deception of “those of the circumcision group” and to appoint leaders for the converts living there.
In his greeting Paul gives us his mandate given to him by Jesus himself: “to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— 2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,” This the mandate of the true church and the mandate of the true followers of Jesus!
In vs 5-9 Paul lays out the qualifications for leadership in the church. Not only must a person be blameless in his/her personal life but must also be grounded in sound doctrine of the faith. A leader must know what he/she believes, basing his/her actions and his/her thinking on the Word of God.
In vs, 10-16 Paul is concerned about “those who fail to do good.” Failing to do good in this case is the adulteration of the gospel; false teachings, deception, Jewish myths and human commands which have distorted the truth. In the church today we face similar situations, political correctness, redefining the family along worldly lines, not Biblical truths, and gender issues.
Today, we would do well to listen to what Paul says to Titus: “To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.” Let’s get real about the influence of the world on the church and on our thinking. We will trust God!
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