IN CONCLUSION - Titus2Series

#Titus2Series

I'll be touching on each of the themes covered by verses 9-15.

 

First of all, I find it interesting that slaves were to be taught to respect their masters by their pastors in order to make the teaching about God, our Saviour attractive, not to fight for their emancipation. I'm still chewing on that. I'll appreciate your thoughts on this.

 

Secondly, the grace of God that offers salvation teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions. It teaches us to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives. If the grace you're offering doesn't fulfil these requirements; it is NOT the grace of God. Let me shorten this post by not talking about the evil that has been perpetuated in the name of grace.

 

Thirdly, believers are to wait for the blessed hope - the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ and live self-controlled, upright and godly lives while we wait. Some claim they are waiting but they've stopped living while others have indulged in worldly pleasures and have stopped waiting. We are to live while we wait and wait while we live.

 

Jesus Christ redeemed us from ALL wickedness and purified us to BE HIS OWN (Not your pastor's puppet or to do your own thing, mind you). We are to be eager to do what is good. These days, I see people being eager to do EVERYTHING except what pleases the Master...And I smile as I pass by...You are definitely in my prayers.

 

The minister is to ENCOURAGE AND REBUKE. If, as a minister, all you do is to encourage, well done. However, your work is incomplete. If all your hearers hear every time is a "feel good" message, you need to check again ooo. Lest you've started doing your own. If your own messages are always about HELL FAYA and how everyone has gone astray, please check again...The balanced minister has a healthy dose of encouragement and rebuke.

 

The minister is to encourage and rebuke WITH AUTHORITY. I looked up this verse in the New Living Version. It says that Titus had the right and power to encourage and rebuke his congregation. I'll like to focus a bit on the ministers that claim that they don't want to tell a man when he is the one ruining his marriage and instead guilt-trip the wife about how she should keep praying which, by the way, isn't a totally bad idea. If the man is a member of your congregation, you have the right and the power to encourage AND REBUKE him. Enough of the skewed messages coming from our pulpits that only rebuke victims and encourage abusers. The grace of God has appeared to ALL (male and female) and it teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions.

 

Thanks for staying with me on this Titus 2 series. If you missed any of the posts, you can catch up on the blog. I'll move on to the #FruitOfTheSpirit series.

Enjoy your day.