For Paul, the goal of teaching is not just the conveying of information, its purpose is to bring people into an understanding and partnership with God and what he is doing.
In 1556, Calvin (in his commentary on 1 Timothy) declared that 1 Timothy was, ‘Highly relevant to our own times’. More than 450 years later, we can aptly claim the same in our own day; today, truth is under fire more than ever…