1 Timothy 4:11-13 NLT

Teach these things and insist that everyone learn them.

Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. 

Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.

Until I get there, 

focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.

1 Timothy 4:11-13 NLT

Sometimes we make the way of faith seem so complicated, and here Paul is laying out for Timothy how to go about being a pastor, leading a church, walking with people...

1. Stay close to the Bible. Teach from it.

2. Your teaching should be encouraging.

3. Live it out. Your life, your day-to-day is an example of what you teach. 

Faith

Love

Purity. 

As Paul invites Timothy into this way of being in his community, so this letter is inviting us into a way of being in 2025. Perhaps it's investing time in God's word.

Perhaps it's being encouraging.

Perhaps it's living out our day-to-day ordinary life in a way that reflects our faith, is the way of love.

New years are always invitations to step into or towards something. Perhaps there's something here in Paul's invitation for us...

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