A Call to Prayer
The Lord's Day Morning July 25, 2004 I Timothy 2:1-7“A Call to Prayer” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to First Timothy, chapter two, as we continue to work through this great letter of Paul to a young pastor working in Ephesus, a church where Paul himself had ministered. In fact, he had laid the foundations for this congregation and he is giving to Timothy a whole host of priorities for a healthy church. He's telling us–in this letter and in Second Timothy, and in Titus (collectively called the “pastoral epistles” by students of the New Testament)– he's telling them and us what the church ought to be like; how we're supposed to be as the family of God, the body of Christ in the local congregation. And…