{"id":56,"date":"2006-01-16T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2006-01-16T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:56:00","slug":"titus-and-church-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Titus and Church Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the little letter to Titus is in many ways a discourse on church health.  People today often overlook this letter, but Luther said of it, &#8220;This is a short epistle, but a model of Christian doctrine, in which is comprehended in a masterful way all that is necessary for a Christian to know and to live.&#8221;  Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/personal\/rvannest\/Professional\/The%20Message%20of%20Titus.htm\">link to an article<\/a> I wrote seeking to expound the overall message of this letter.  I argue that the structure of the letter shows that the letter details four necessary elements of church health: Proper Leadership, Proper Response to Error (moral and doctrinal), Proper Living, and Proper Understanding of the Gospel.  A pdf version of the article can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/resources\/publications\/sbjt\/2003\/2003Fall3.pdf\">here.<\/a><br \/>I have often used this (in oral presentation) with churches in interim periods or other times of self-evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the little letter to Titus is in many ways a discourse on church health. People today often overlook this letter, but Luther said of it, &#8220;This is a short epistle, but a model of Christian doctrine, in which is comprehended in a masterful way all that is necessary for a Christian to know &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=56\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Titus and Church Health&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}