the Glocal Trekker Blog

As I was preaching in 1 Timothy this week I reflected on Paul a good bit. He was complex, brilliant, difficult - to be taken sometimes only in small doses. But it took a "Paul" for the church to emerge as it did. What was Paul's greatest contribution? His writings in Romans and Ephesians? His leader as the early missionary for the church? His church leadership abilities? I believe all of these were great - but had he not raised up Timothy and Titus - we may have never seen his books, seen the church move from leader of a movement to leaders of a movement or anything else. I rarely do this, but go listen to my sermon from Sunday on our church website northwoodchurch.org - if you're a young person, or someone going into ministry there's a lot of good stuff in 1 Timothy 4:11-16 that can give you some good direction.