6:1-11 – Have you ever accidentally ruined something? Have ever wanted to ruin something? Your actions are different to these extreme ways of ruining.

I would say that success is spiritual and inward, not material and outward. Verse 6 in our text today says, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” If you have godliness, you have great gain. You may not have the things the world can afford, but if you have God in your life, you are rich.

This test today a few examples of what can ruin your faith quickly. Getting on top of them before you need an overhaul is suggested by Paul to his young student Timothy. Let’s find out what can ruin our faith if we’re not careful.

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5:1-16 - Church is a unique experience for a lot of reasons, but one reason that I think church is unique is that it brings people from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences together.

Oftentimes, you’ll meet someone who shares similar life experiences, but I hope we’re all here because it’s our heart’s desire to worship the living God and it’s our shared faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ that brings us together.

And that’s the issue that Paul is giving Timothy advice on. He’s addressing how to pastorally handle the various relationships and circumstances within the family of God. Particularly how to say hard things to the various demographics within the church, and to care for the growing ministry towards widows within the Ephesian church.

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There are several metaphors throughout the New Testament illustrating the nature of the Christian life and Christian community. All the metaphors in 1 Timothy 4 are embedded with the need for training, for spiritual disciplines and practices which strengthen faith and promote spiritual health - Muscle training.

If you dedicate yourself to these things, there will be no room for entertaining wacky stories which have no basis in truth. Instead, there will be lush spiritual growth, teachable spirits, humble service, supportive beliefs, compassionate ministry, and open fellowship.

The high values of the worthy servant of Christ need to be both used and guarded. Just as your body has physical muscles, so the Body of Christ has spiritual muscles. Faith is a muscle which needs to be stretched, exercised, rested, and supplied with plenty of protein and necessary nutrients. Let’s get to working out!

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1 Timothy 3:1-13

The church has always needed people who would give themselves for the good of the flock. We live in a time that is all about being a consumer. We just take what we want and need. Sometimes the church is looked at in the same lens. You come and get what you want out of it, whether it be singing, kids bible classes, preaching, the Lord’s Supper, or fellowship. None of these would exist without all of us giving of ourselves for the good of each other. Paul is writing these things so that we will behave rightly as the church, the people of God. A church desperately needs godly leaders and godly servants.

We need more spiritual elders and deacons and more spiritual ministry leaders in the kingdom of God. We need people who will live their lives ready to step up to the work of leading God’s people in the future. Who will people come to for spiritual teaching, spiritual help, and spiritual guidance if we are not the ones who become that for the world? We must not go to church. We must be the church! We must be the servants and leaders that God wants us to be. What can you do today to move your life in that direction to fulfill your purpose to be the image of God to the world?

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Looking for peace and some order is good. Praying provides peace for the praying person. Paul is giving Timothy and each of us some instruction for appropriate worship patterns and prayer in chapter two. God wants us all to pray for everyone. God is looking for godly devotion done in appropriate ways. The ultimate goal is for for every believer to live a life characterized by peace, order and godliness.

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1:1-20 –What sustains and unites the church is not a pastor or a program. It’s not worship style or music. What sustains and unites the church is the perseverance of Jesus coming for those that need Him!

The apostle Paul highlights the role of the law as well as the mercy that God showed him as the “foremost” sinner. This same mercy in Jesus Christ remains the church’s only hope! The church is the place where sinners are welcomed so they can be supernaturally changed by the Savior.

So, let’s not misunderstand what Jesus came to do, and in our telling of the Good News, let’s not misrepresent what the gospel offers. We to get lost in details and side issues, let’s come back to the center. The cancer the gospel proposes to cure is this: our sins against God!

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Acts 6:1-7; Eph. 4:11-13; 1 Cor. 12:14-22. Ultimately we end up pointing to human brokenness – God’s people and our God together makes up Everybody that is found greater than somebody. You end up finding how much stronger you are together than you were alone. Here’s what’s great about Christian community – the more you want from it, and the more you give to it, the more uncomfortable you have to be, and at the same time, the more fulfilled you become. Who doesn’t want to be greater than the somebody you are by joining up with everybody?

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Gen. 1:26; 2:18; 3:7-8; Rev. 7:9; 2 Cor. 13:11 – Why do we exist? The very core of creation/humanity is the need to belong - to be in vulnerable relationships that build the framework for community to take place.

Before anything was created, we will see that God existed in community: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The three in one is the source that everything was created and moves. So it stands to reason that whatever is created would have similar identifying makers or DNA Alf the Creator. One of those markers is that nothing was created in isolation and the left in a vacuum. Everything is created in relationship to something or someone else. It wasn’t good for Adam to be alone and neither were you. It’s the ever-present constant of the entire human narrative.

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