The Ordinary Means of Grace
The Lord's Day Morning September 19, 2004 I Timothy 4:11-16 “The Ordinary Means of Grace” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter four. We’re working through three letters written by Paul that have been called for a couple of hundred years now “the pastoral letters,” or the “pastoral epistles”: I Timothy, Titus, and II Timothy. Some of the last things that Paul ever said in his life to the church, they’re written from a veteran pastor, an apostle, a missionary, church planter to a young man who has been his apostolic assistant in missions work, and to a man who is now pastoring a local congregation, facing all the challenges of not only ministering to the local congregation, but in a time of persecution…