Thursday, January 29, 2015
[Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul]
2 Corinthians 8:16-19, 23f
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Today we celebrate the lives of two companions of Paul during his missionary journeys. Both of these have seemingly achieved a status of friend, each has been instrumental and vital to Paul’s ministry. We gather information and knowledge about them from various places in the New Testament, including letters written to them, purportedly from Paul. Many biblical teachers and scholars would repute that Paul actually wrote these particular epistles, but even if he did not, someone who knew both Timothy and Titus addressed them. Timothy seems to have been born to a Jewish mother and Greek father, and came to the Christian faith through Paul’s ministry. Titus appears to have been a young Greek man who also entered the Christian life through Paul’s teaching and was instrumental as an ambassador for Paul in Corinth. Today’s reading from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian Christians bears out the importance of this relationship.
Together, their faithful service to Paul as well as their own work in the furthering of the good news to the emerging faith communities in Asia Minor have acted as examples of service and faith to all generations since their time.
- Reverend Paul Kett
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