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Eric, Big Day, as it always is when we start a new book, it seems like these days have been coming more more frequently as we tackle sort of shorter epistles. That is correct. But we are short tackling a real

short epistle this week as we start Titus. That's right. I think, you know, it's possible,

Dan, that we could breeze through Titus in two weeks if we really wanted to.

But, you know, maybe we can stretch it out a little bit, as is typically the case.

When we begin a new book, we like to give at least a little bit of introductory information about the book so that we maybe think about some of those themes or reference, some of those

thoughts as we go through the book. Of course, as with so many of the books that we have gone

through, Dan, this is an epistle written by Paul. Once again, written to somebody that is a

protege of Paul's ministry.

In verse four, he refers to Titus as his true child.

And so like Timothy before us, that tends to get a lot more attention for the closeness he had to Paul.

Nevertheless, Titus has this same sort of status in Paul's mind as a child in, as he says it here,

the common faith. So Titus is a very important and very significant person to Paul, and

probably we can extrapolate from that younger than Paul, since he sees him as a child of his.

At the very least, a disciple of his.

Paul had set Titus over the church, whether that be a series of home gatherings or one

sort of big church. We're not exactly sure. Probably, probably it's the case that it was

multiple home gatherings in the town of Crete or the city of Crete to take over for him in the ministry there.

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