Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We finished the 18th book in our New Testament plan and the 57th book in our whole Bible

plan.

Paul wrote this letter today to his friend and coworker who had been assigned to do ministry

on a Greek island.

Tough job.

But for real, it wasn't exactly a cakewalk.

The people on the island of Crete have a challenging culture that goes against the

grain of Christ teachings and all of this is being reinforced by some local leaders who

are apparently on a power trip.

So it's not all sunsets and suvlockey for our friend Titus.

Let's see how Paul encourages him to handle things.

In chapter 1, Paul reminds Titus that he's positioned him over the church in Crete so

that he can get things running in ship shape.

But when you're dropped down at a relatively new church in the middle of a bunch of bad leaders

and false teachers, it's not exactly an easy task.

This is a lot like the problems Timothy was facing yesterday, so we'll see some overlap

in Paul's advice.

It's interesting to know what advice makes both books because that gives us an idea of

what things are situational and what things are universal.

First, Paul gives Titus guidelines for how to choose elders, the people who will be the

governing board of leaders over the church and its decisions.

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