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How to use this guide: Read the passage, pray, then answer the questions in your own words. Keep notes on what you will obey this week.

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Overview

• Book: Titus
• Theme: Sound teaching produces a life that matches the Good News.
• Purpose: To strengthen order in the assembly, appoint faithful leadership, correct false teaching, and teach believers to live with self-control and good works.

Key ideas to watch for

• Sound doctrine (healthy teaching) and its fruit in daily life.
• Leadership: character matters more than charisma.
• Good works: not the root of salvation, but evidence of a transformed life.
• Grace: trains us to live set-apart lives as we await Messiah.

Chapter-by-chapter guide

Titus 1 — Leadership and guarding the truth

Read: Titus 1

Focus: Qualifications for elders, and correcting those who twist the message.

Observe (What does it say?)

• Who is writing, and to whom?
• What traits are required for overseers or elders?
• What problems are occurring on Crete?

Interpret (What does it mean?)

• Why is a leader’s character tied to protecting the assembly from false teaching?