I.
In almost the last sentence of this week’s focus passage tells a young minister to “Declare … exhort … and reprove…”

As you spend time with this passage, what do you find that Paul “declares”?

II.
Titus 1:1-3; 2:11-15 (NRSVue)

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness, in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began — in due time he revealed his word through the proclamation with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.

III.
What does Paul declare about himself?

Who is he? Does he tell us what his mission/goal is? Why has that become his mission/goal?

Before we leave our search for what Paul “declares,” what do you find him telling us about God?

charles
{ubi caritas et amor, Desu ibi est}