March 22, 1992
In his letter to Titus, Paul gave specific instructions for godly living to the older generation. What does it look like for a congregation’s seniors to express healthy belief through healthy behavior? Alistair Begg teaches that men are called to be temperate, respectable, and sound in a triad of virtues: faith, love, and endurance. Women likewise are to be reverent in home and church, purposefully living out a unique role of serenity and sympathy.
1But as for you, teach what accords with psound1 doctrine. 2Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, psound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3qOlder women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, rnot slanderers sor slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
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