1 & 2 Timothy for You: Protect the Gospel, Pass on the Gospel (God’s Word for You | GWFY)

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“Now part of the evil character of the end-times culture is the appearance of godliness.” (Page 171)

“For Christians in the West, the real problem is the temptation to share the values of society and so keep the ‘elite’ (the journalists, politicians, intellectuals and so on) happy by either being weak, inoffensive and ineffectual, or by accommodating to whatever is fashionable.” (Page 168)

“The best explanation is that this letter is not a private correspondence but intended to be a public letter of recommendation for Timothy—something like us giving a reference for someone to a potential new employer.” (Page 16)

“Rather, true religion is the relationship with God, through Jesus the Christ, that issues forth not only in reconciling forgiveness of our sins but also in the changed life of loving God. This changed life is seen, among other ways, in loving our neighbour. This changed behaviour is so strong that sometimes we limit the word ‘godliness’ to the behaviour of God’s people—that is, their morality. But the opposite of biblical godliness is not so much ungodliness as godlessness. For the essence of godliness is not our behaviour but our relationship with God.” (Page 86)

“The tactics of false teachers—be they bishops, academics, authors or preachers—are unchanged: they profess belief in the resurrection and then quarrel over the meaning of the word in order to deny its truth. To deny the resurrection would rob the wolf of its sheep’s clothing, but to reinterpret the resurrection is to deny its reality, and that will make even the most minor official into the darling of the secular media.” (Page 163)