Titus Study - Week 3: Specific instructions for Titus’ teaching

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Today’s topic: Specific instructions for Titus’ teaching

Prayer & group Reading of Titus chapter 2

What is Titus told to teach? (Hint, look at vs 1)

Who are the groups identified for Titus to teach specifically? (Hint, look at vs 2, 3, 6, & 9)

What is the teaching emphasis regarding group 1? (Hint, look at vs 2)

What is the teaching emphasis regarding group 2? (Hint, look at vs 3) 

Who are the people that group 2 will then teach, after group 2 has been taught? (Hint, look at vs 4-5)

What is the teaching emphasis regarding group 3? (Hint, look at vs 6) 

How is Titus instructed to teach group 3? (Hint, look at vs 7 & 8) 

What is the teaching emphasis regarding group 4? (Hint, look at vs 9)

What is the reason for this teaching emphasis, or another way to think of it, what is the goal for group 4? (Hint, look for a “so that” or “because” or “that” statement in the 2nd half of vs 10). 

Who are the groups that Salvation is offered to? (Hint, look at vs 11)

 What does Salvation teach us? (Hint, look at vs 12) 

 What are we waiting for? (Hint, look at vs 13 & 14)

 What does the encouragement from Paul to Titus in vs 15 tell us about the size, challenge, and importance of the task of teaching? 

Self Study questions:

Who are your examples of older men “worthy of respect”? What older men are “sound in faith” and in “love” and “endurance”? 

Who are your examples for what it looks like to love your children, husband, and grandchildren? 

Titus 2:3-4 suggests that there is a way to live which “maligns” the word of God. This word means to be “evil in nature or effect” or speak with a spiteful manner. Genuinely reflect upon the world around you. Is the Word of God lifted up, revered, followed, pursued in our culture? Or is the Word of God “maligned”? Why or why not? 

Titus 2:6 suggests that young men need Godly examples set before them. Is this a truth our world believes? 

When you think of the young men portrayed in our culture who are “famous”, are they “self-controlled”? 

Is self-control a character quality you are born with, or something that is trained and taught? 

None of us here today are “slaves” in the same sense as the people in Crete during Titus’ day. Yet the same “so that” statement rings true! What are some ways in which you are called to live “so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.”?

Paul says to Titus that the Grace of God teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions. Our own sinful desires do not own us, or define us! How is God teaching you to say “no” to ungodliness and worldly passions?