Guard the Deposit
The significance of orthodox theology within the early church can’t be overstated. Paul repeatedly tells Timothy to protect the deposit of apostolic reality entrusted to him (1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:13–14) and go it on to others (2 Tim. 2:1–2). As a pastor particularly, Timothy should be capable of train (1 Tim. 3:2) and to appropriate his opponents with gentleness (2 Tim. 2:25). Equally, Paul tells Titus he should be “capable of give instruction in sound doctrine and in addition to rebuke those that contradict it” (Titus 1:9; cf. Titus 1:13). There’s a core of apostolic instructing that the Christian church should embrace whether it is to be Christian and whether it is to be a church.
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