“Hope For Young Ministers”

1. Set an example (4:12).

• People will no longer despise your youth when they are respecting your example.

• Who we are matters! It puts a question mark, period, or exclamation point behind what we teach.

2. Read, Teach, and Apply the Scripture (4:13).

• Read the Scripture, exhort from the Scripture, and teach sound doctrine from the Scripture.

3. Develop your gifts (4:14).

4. Cultivate your life and doctrine (4:15).

• Sanctification is a slow motion picture.     Milton Vincent

5. Pay close attention to your life and doctrine (4:16).

§  “Behind the ministry of public teaching there lies the discipline of private study. All the best teachers have themselves remained students. They teach well because they learn well.”   John Stott