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First Generation: ApostlesMatthew 28:19-20
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First Generation: JerusalemActs 2:41-42
4:185:42
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First Generation: AntiochActs 13:1; 15:35
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Next Generation: EphesusActs 19:8-10
20:18-22, 27-32Ephesians 4:11-15
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Next Generation: Timothy and Titus
1 Timothy 1:3-113:24:1-115:176:1-5
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What are we supposed to teach?• Men to pray• Women to adorn themselves
in modest apparel…• Women not to teach or be
in authority over a man• Honor widows
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What are we supposed to teach?• Slaves honor and be obedient
to their masters• Rich people not to trust in their
riches and to be generous
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What are we supposed to teach?• Older men be sober, reverent,
temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience
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What are we supposed to teach?• Older women be reverent, not
slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they admonish the young women to…
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What are we supposed to teach?• Young women love their husbands,
to love their husbands, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their ownhusbands
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What are we supposed to teach?• Young men to be sober-minded• Zealous for, ready for, maintain
good works• Be subject to rulers and
authorities• Speak evil of no one
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What are we supposed to teach?• Be peaceable, gentle, showing all
humility to all men
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I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting; (1 Timothy 2:8)
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In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works. (1 Timothy 2:9-10)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• …teach no other doctrine, nor give
heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith. (1 Tim. 1:3)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• Withdraw from anyone who
teaches otherwise. (1 Tim. 6:3-5)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• Remind them of these things,
charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. (2 Tim. 2:14)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• Avoid foolish and ignorant
disputes, knowing that they generate strife. …must not quarrel. (2 Tim. 2:23)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• Stop the mouths of insubordinate, idle
talkers, deceivers… teaching things which they ought not… rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth. (Titus 1:10-14)
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What problems are we supposed to address and avoid?• But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies,
contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned. (Titus 3:9-11)
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Next Generation: Families, Younger Christians, Community• What are we passing on?• What do we expect of
one another?• What do we expect of
new people?
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Next Generation: Families, Younger Christians, CommunityWhat is the role of the church?• Make Disciples Who Make Disciples• Teach and Preach• Exhort• Guard
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• Discipline• Restore
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2 & 3 JohnA new generation of people
who know, understand, and apply truth
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