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Transcription: Paul’s Letter to Titus. Titus was a Greek follower of Jesus who was, for years, a trusted co-worker and traveling companion of Paul’s. He had helped Paul in a number of crisis situations in the past and in this letter we discover that Paul had assigned him the task of going to Crete, a large island off the coast of Greece to restore order to a network of house churches. Now, Cretan culture was notorious in the Ancient World. One of the Greek words for being a liar was kretizo ‘to be a Cretan.’ These people were infamous for treachery, and greed, most of the men on the island had served as mercenary soldiers to the highest bidder, and the island cities were known as being unsafe, plagued by violence and sexual corruption. However, the island of Crete had many strategic harbours and they serviced cities all over the ancient Mediterranean sea and so, from Paul’s point of view, Crete was the perfect place to start a network of churches. Now, we don’t know the details, but somehow these churches came under the influence of corrupt Cretan leaders. They said they were Christians but they were ruining the churches. And so Paul assigned Titus with the task of going there to set things straight and this letter provided the instructions. It has a pretty straight forward design: after a brief introduction, Paul gives Titus clear instructions about his task in the church. He then offers guidance about the new kind of household, and then about the new kind of humanity that the Gospel could create in these Cretan communities. Paul then closes the letter with some final greetings. So, Paul opens the whole thing by reminding Titus that his message as an apostle is about the hope of eternal life: that is, the life of the new creation that is available starting now though Jesus the Messiah. And this hope was promised long ago by “the God who does not lie” Now, this little opening comment introduces an important theme underlying the whole letter. One of the problems in the Cretan churches was that they had assimilated their ideas about Jesus, the Christian God, to their ideas about the Greek gods that they grew up with, specifically, Zeus, their chief god. Cretan people claimed that Zeus was actually born on their island and they loved to tell stories and mythologies about Zues’ underhanded character. He would seduce women and lie to get his way. And Paul wants to be really clear- the God revealed through Jesus is totally different than Zeus. His basic character traits are faithfulness and truth. Which means that the Christian way of life will be about truth also, which will be a real change for these Cretans. So, Paul then addresses Titus with a two-fold task. He says the first one is to appoint new leaders for each church community, a team of what he calls ‘elders:’ mature husbands and fathers, whose way of life is totally different from Cretan culture. They are to be known for integrity, total devotion to Jesus, for self-control and generosity, both in their families and in the community at large. And these new leaders are to teach the good news about Jesus and replace the corrupt leaders who need to be confronted. That’s Titus’ second task. Paul identifies the teachers as, “those of the circumcision.” In other words, they were ethnically Jewish Cretans who said that they followed Jesus, but, similar to the problems in Galatia, these people demanded that non-Jewish Christians be circumcised and follow the laws of the Torah if they really wanted to become followers of the Jewish Messiah. Paul says that they are obsessed with Jewish myths and human commands. And, to top it off, they are just in the church leadership business to make money. And so Paul, in a brilliant move, he pulls a quote from an ancient Cretan poet, Epimenides, who was very frank and honest about the character of his own people. He said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons!” They blur the lines between true and false, between good and evil, and they’re just in it for the money. And so while these leaders claim to know God, their Cretan way of life denies them. They have to be dealt with. And this leads Paul into the next section. Because of these corrupt leaders, many Christians in these churches now have homes and personal lives that are a total wreck. And three different times Paul highlights the result: the message about Jesus is discredited, their non-Christian neighbours now have good cause to make evil accusations, and all of this makes the teaching about God our Saviour totally unattractive and not compelling to anybody. So, Paul paints a picture of the ideal Cretan household that is devoted to Jesus that would be elderly men and women who are full of integrity and self-control so they can become models of character to the young people. And the young women shouldn’t be sleeping around avoiding marriage, as was fashionable in Crete at the time, but rather they should be looking for faithful partners so they can raise stable, healthy families. And the young men are to do the same. They are to be known as productive, healthy citizens. Christian slaves on Crete were in a unique position. Because we know that because of the Gospel they were treated as equals in Paul’s church communities. However, there was a danger that they would use that equality as license to disrespect their masters and then become associated with slave rebellions which would further discredit the Christians’ message. You can see Paul negotiating a fine line here. He believes that the Gospel about Jesus needs to prove it’s redemptive power in the public square if it’s really going to transform Cretan culture and that’s not going to happen through social upheaval or by Christians cloistering away from urban life. The Christian message is going to be compelling to Cretans when Christians fully participate in public life: when their lives and homes look similar on the surface but after a closer look their neighbours will discover that Christians live by a totally different value system out of devotion to a totally different God. And that’s the difference that Paul beautifully summarizes at the end of chapter two. He says the value system driving the Christian way of life is God’s generous grace which appeared in the person of Jesus and will appear again at His return. This grace was demonstrated when Jesus gave up His honor to die a shameful death on behalf of His enemies so that He could rescue and redeem them. And it’s that same grace that calls God’s people to say “no” to Cretan corrupt ways of life that are inconsistent with the generous love of God. Paul then zooms out from the Christian household to a vision of Christians living like new humans in Cretan society. Of all people, Christians should be known as the ideal citicens. Peacable, generious, obedient to authorities, known for persuing the common good. But this is really different from how Cretans grew up. How are Christians supposed to sustain this counter-cultural way of life. Paul believes the power source is the transforming love of the Three-in-One God announced in the Gospel. And he explores this with a really beautiful poem. He says God’s kindness and love are what save us, despite ourselves. So that through the Holy Spirit God “washed” and “rebirthed” and “renewed” people, and through Jesus has provided a way for people to be declared right before Him and all of this opens up eternal life, that is, a new future in the new creation. This living story is so powerful that it can produce new kinds of people. Paul’s convinced that Spirit-empowered faithfulness to the teachings of Jesus will declare God’s grace all over the island of Crete and all over the world. Paul concludes by promising to send back up for Titus. Ethier Artemas or Tychicus and then he says ‘hello’ to their common friends and so the letter ends. The letter of Titus shows us Paul’s missionary stratigy for churches to become agents of transformation from within their communities won’t happen by waging a culture war or by assimilating to the Cretan way of life. Rather, he calls these Christians to wisely participate in Cretan culture. They need to regect what’s bad but also embrace what’s good. They can learn to live peaceably, devote themselves to teaching and to the common good Christians will, in his words, “show the beauty of the message about our saving God.” And that’s what the letter to Titus is all about.

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thank you for this well written account o the letter to Titus. I I’ve really enjoyed these learning modules. God as blessed you with an amazing gift.. I listen , then write your words, have the Bible open and it’s amazing how well these letters of Paul bring so much enlightenment in my learning.

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As I listened to this I started to shudder, Paul could have almost been talking about N. America in 2019. Even many of the people who call themselves Christians speak & behave so terribly that the message of Jesus doesn't look attractive to non believers. This should not be.

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I really love this video. It puts it into perspective how we as Christians should be acting in our culture to have positive change, instead of inviting potential reviling of the word of God. I've been studying Titus on my own recently and this really helped me see it from a completely different perspective. Thank you all (from 7 years later!).

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