Home Group

Home group was smaller than normal yesterday, as a number of people had other commitments. One of our number is going to have an endoscopy soon, and commented that they were not going to have a colonoscopy. That was mentioned because it seems that most of the group have had a colonoscopy. I think that says something about the average age of the group we are in. I reckon the topic comes up around once a month.

We started looking at Titus, and concluded that Paul was expecting the letter to be read by others. Firstly, compare the greeting in the first few verses with the greetings in, say, 2Tim, or Philemon. Paul was clearly setting his authority out, even though he knew Timothy extremely well - they had been working closely for 15 years. This, we decided, was to make sure that those on Crete were reminded of Paul's authority, and also so that as Timothy carried out Paul's instructions in the letter, that he could demonstrate it was not purely off his own back that he was doing this, but it was under Paul's authority and instruction.