2 Timothy 4

The Lord's Day Morning November 12, 2006 II Timothy 4:1-4 Biblical Priorities for the Life of our Church (2) How in the World does the Church Grow? Biblical Preaching Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy 4. A couple of weeks ago we began a new series on biblical priorities for our life as a congregation of Christians; that is, we wanted to look to the Bible to see what the Bible said about how we are to order our lives together — what our priorities ought to be as we live and work together as fellow Christians in this local congregation in obedience to God's word. We started that series off by looking at something of the context in which the church finds itself today. We asked the question “Where in the world is…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to 2 Timothy chapter 4.  We’re going to look at Paul’s last written words to Timothy.  Now these aren’t Paul’s last words to Timothy because in this very passage we learn that Timothy is going to see Paul again.  But this is the last letter of Paul to his young mentee, Timothy, a man that he views as a son in the Lord and who looks us to him as a father in the faith.  And in these words, we do find, as Denny Terry reminded us…