Titus 2:1-10, 15

Instructions for relationships within the church

The world uses many methods to move merchandise. Fear. Humor. Sex. Etc.
The churches key commercial is you!
You are a walking advertisement for Jesus Christ
The community of the body of Christ is what the world knows of Jesus
Are we attractive or not? (2:10)

Instructions for Titus

1. Teach with integrity (2:7)
--Practice what you preach
--A good message can be made ineffective by a poor messanger

2. Teach with Seriousness (2:7)
--Be prepared
--Don't be an entertainer
--Understand the gravity of the truth

3. Teach with soundness of speech (2:8)
--Don't say things critics can poke solid holes through
--Stick with Biblical truth, not human ideas
--Make it so no one can oppose your 'rightly'

4. Teach with authority (2:15)
--Encourage those who obey
--Rebuke those who disobey
--Churches, today, do little disciplining of their people

Instructions for Older Men

1. Be temperate
2. Be worthy of respect
3. Be self-controlled
4. Be sound in faith (a faith marked by love and endurance)

Instructions for Older Women

1. Be reverent
2. Don't slander
3. Don't be addicted to wine
4. Teach what is good

Instructions for Younger Women

1. Love husbands & children
2. Be self-controlled
3. Be pure
4. Be busy at home
5. Be kind
6. Be subject to husbands

Instructions for Young Men

1. Be self-controlled

Instructions for Slaves

1. Be subject to masters in everything
2. Try to please your masters
3. Don't talk badly about your masters
4. Don't steal from your masters
5. Show yourself to be trustworthy