Continuing in the Faith
2 Timothy 3:10–17
1. Paul says Timothy followed his teaching, conduct, aim, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, and sufferings.
2. Paul is plain: all who desire to live a godly life will be persecuted, while impostors go from bad to worse.
3. Paul tells Timothy to continue in the sacred writings he has known from childhood, which are able to make him wise for salvation and to equip him for every good work.
4. The goal is not a church that watches one person fish, but a people equipped by the Word to open it with others.
2 Timothy 3:10–17
1. Paul says Timothy followed his teaching, conduct, aim, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, and sufferings.
- Whose life has most shaped how you continue in the faith?
- What would it look like for your own life to become one that someone else could actually follow home?
2. Paul is plain: all who desire to live a godly life will be persecuted, while impostors go from bad to worse.
- Where are you most tempted to soften the cost of following Christ when you talk with the next generation?
- How does the reminder that “from them all the Lord rescued me” shape the way you endure and the way you prepare others to endure?
3. Paul tells Timothy to continue in the sacred writings he has known from childhood, which are able to make him wise for salvation and to equip him for every good work.
- In what ways are you tempted to treat the Word as insufficient—looking to better methods, props, personalities, or experiences to do what Scripture alone is said to do?
- How would your life and ministry change if you truly believed the Word is enough?
4. The goal is not a church that watches one person fish, but a people equipped by the Word to open it with others.
- Who is one person you could sit with this week over a short portion of Scripture—reading it, asking what God is saying and what obedience would look like, and praying for them by name?
- What keeps you from taking that step?