Scripture Reading: Titus 1:1-4

Sermon Outline

I. Introduction

a. Paul wrote and instructed Titus and the church down the ages on church

ministry; on how to do church.

b. Worldly principles and practices are preferred because they can bring in the

crowds.

c. God helping, we shall learn, relearn, and come face to face with the biblical

principles and practices of church ministry we glean from the Letter to Titus.

d. The first principle of church ministry is servanthood

II. Definition of Servanthood (v. 1a)

a. The word doulos for servant should be more accurately be translated as

bondslave.

b. The bondslave or doulos means that we have been chosen deliberately to serve

God and that we are God’s property

c. There’s a secondary sense in which we like being servants or slaves of God, that

we can also be His ambassadors.

III. Purpose of Servanthood (v. 1b-3)

a. Evangelism

b. Education

c. Sanctification

d. Expectation

e. Proclamation

IV. Passing on the Baton of Servanthood (v. 4)

a. Mentoring

b. Mimicking Christ

V. Conclusion