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Wait, I thought he was talking about pastors, presbyters.

And now he calls the same men bishops?

That's a problem for Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans, because they insist on what they call the historic episcopate and teach

that there is a divine distinction between bishop and priest. But it's not a problem at all for

Lutherans who know that there is no divine distinction

between those two titles. The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study

with the church past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Titus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

Our previous podcast launched us into Titus, one of three epistles written by St. Paul to fellow holders of the office of the ministry.

We noted that that difference in intended recipients accounts for some of the

stylistic and vocabulary differences in these letters from Paul's congregational epistles,

or the personal letter to Philema. We're sometime in the decade of the 60s, not too long

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