20180513 raising a hero
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Timothy was raised in the faith by his mother and grandmother, Paul commended them for what they built into him. How can we also raise hero's in the faith?
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- 3. 2Ti 1:2-5 NLT I am writing to Timothy, my dear son. May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace. Timothy, I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted.
- 4. 2Ti 1:2-5 NLT And I will be filled with joy when we are together again. I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
- 5. 2 Tim 3:14-17 NIV But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- 6. 2 Tim 3:14-17 NIV All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- 7. Psalm 34:8 NIV Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Editor's Notes
- Who was Timothy to Paul Timothy was Paul’s young protégé, who later joined Paul in his travels (Romans 16:21) and eventually became the pastor of the church at Ephesus (1 Timothy 1:3). He was biracial in that his mother was Jew and his father Greek. Timothy’s father was not his spiritual leader. “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon…. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know Timothy’s proven worth…” (Philippians 2:19–22a). Paul met Timothy with his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois in Lystra and was impressed with Timothy’s passion and commitment to Christ. Paul mentored Timothy and then sent him on missions do different churches. When Paul heard of the incorrect teachings that some leaders was spreading in the church of Ephesus he sent Timothy to confront these leaders and to restore order in the church. He was Paul’s representative. Paul makes this point abundantly clear in 1 Corinthians 4:16–17 - “I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.” His leadership was not about him but about representing Paul. He was a second chair leader.
- In the modern period Augustin-Francois Poulain, S.J., in The Graces of Interior Prayer, stated that “the words to see God, to hear and to touch him are not mere metaphors. They express something more: some close analogy” (p. 90). Poulain would argue that there are passages in the Bible where the senses that touch, taste, hear, smell and see God are not merely metaphors, but actually describe a sensory relationship with God, albeit spiritual. So, when the psalmist asks us to “taste and see that the Lord is good,” there is a spiritual sense to which the image refers that is not exhausted by a metaphor that evokes a remembrance of a wonderful meal or even physical participation in the eucharistic feast. But the connection between the physical senses and the spiritual senses is always present, for the physical senses are the means by which we become sensitive to spiritual realities and grounded in the reality of God’s presence.