Introduction to Titus

All verse are taken from the BSB version (The Berean Standard Bible)

Before we read a single verse of this letter — before we meet an elder, before we encounter a false teacher, before we hear a single word of instruction — we need to stop and ask a question that most people skip over.

Who is writing this? Who is reading it? And WHAT in the world is going on?

Because here’s the thing about the Bible: it wasn’t written in a vacuum. Every letter, every word, was written to a real person in a real place dealing with real problems. And when we understand that — when we step into the world behind the text — the words stop being distant history and start becoming something alive.

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💬  DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

 1.  What do you already know about Paul, Titus, or the island of Crete? And what — if anything — surprised you about the background of this letter?

2.  The letter’s core theme is that sound doctrine leads to godly living. Where have you seen that connection — or its breakdown — in your own experience?

3.  Paul trusted Titus with a hard assignment. Who has trusted you with something difficult — and what did that trust mean to you?