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"Watch Your Step: A Study of First Timothy" - 1 Timothy 1:1-2
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September 08, 2008 05:38 AM PDT
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09/07/2008 - 1 Timothy 1:1-2 – "Watch Your Step: A Study of First Timothy" – INTRODUCTION and OVERVIEW

I was reading Worst-Case Scenarios: How To Navigate A Minefield there is says:

You're on a 2-week nature trek in Afghanistan, and you start walking toward some wildflowers off to your left. All of a sudden, a large animal appears and charges you. Then, KABOOM! The animal is obliterated. Uh-oh! You've wandered into a minefield. What should you do?

Back up slowly in your own footsteps. Do not turn around. Walk carefully backward....

[and how do you avoid getting into this situation again?] Watch the movements of locals: Locals who avoid perfectly good trails probably are avoiding a mined area. Observe which routes they will not travel on and avoid those areas. Never travel alone in a suspected mined area.


Many of the Apostle Paul’s letters read like "Worst Case Scenario" handbooks with useful advice for traversing the minefields of ministry. Paul wrote what are commonly referred to as the Pastoral Letters: 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus. He penned these open letters to the young Pastors, Timothy and Titus seeking to help them successfully navigate the Minefields of Ministry.

In these epistles, Paul's teaching cries, "Watch Your Step!" Observe me, for I am a local, familiar with this territory and these trails. I’ll help you avoid the minefields. Follow in my footsteps, for where I have stepped is safe and sure.