Building a Healthy Church: What to Avoid and What to Embrace, Titus 3:9-15

Today we are finishing our study through Titus.
Paul commissioned Titus to set in order the churches on Crete—to build healthy churches. In this letter, we learn a lot about what a healthy church looks like. Healthy churches have qualified elders and leaders. Healthy churches teach sound doctrine. Healthy churches have active discipleship where mature believers teach newer/younger believers. Healthy churches have members that are good citizens and neighbors while actively seeking to be valuable residents in the community. Paul says these things are “excellent and profitable for all people.”
In his closing remarks, Paul points out some things that are not profitable, and we would do well to pay attention because the same situations exist in the modern church as existed in Paul’s day.
As we unpack these closing instructions, we will see two situations healthy churches need to avoid, and two that need to be embraced.