Study Guide

The Pillar & Buttress of Truth

1 Timothy 3:14-16

Read the Text: 1 Timothy 3:14-16

According to this passage, the church is not optional. Rather, the church is the center of God’s work in the world today.

1. We are God’s Family & Do His Work

• Greek, Oikos – both family members & economic center.

• God’s family members – reconciled through Christ.

• God’s business– proclamation, baptism, the supper, discipleship.

2. We Uphold God’s Truth

The Noble Task 1 Tim 3 – Study Guide

The Noble Task

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1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9; 1 Peter 5:1-5

The Text

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. ² Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not …

INTRODUCTION:

1983 – 43 people meet in the home of Jim & Ruth McDowall for the first meeting of what would become Lake Wylie Baptist Church. Jimmy Ezell is affirmed as the pastor. October 9^th, the church is constituted with 33 charter members.

1984 – Having rotated through member homes for worship, Lake Wylie Baptist find its first permanent home in the offices of The Realty Plantation in Tega Cay.

1984 – On …