Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine...lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance...lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness...We don’t want anyone looking down on God’s Message because of their behavior.But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching, your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.
God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone! We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
Titus 2: 1-6, 7-8, 11-14 The Message
There are few things quite so boring as being religious,
but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!
Major Ian Thomas
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