Titus 1:10-16 Part 3: Doctrine and Devotion Series week 8

Perhaps you're familiar with the concept of a deep fake. A deep fake is when someone takes something like an image or video and edits it into another image or video to digitally alter the item and make it appear to be someone else. But as I thought about this during the week it came to my mind that this is the way some can be in the church there is a presence of deep fakes in the Christian Church even today. Individuals who have all the right appearance on the outside—things look good, they do everything that they're supposed to do, but there is no heart. They have rituals without a relationship. And in our text that we've been looking at over the past two weeks now Paul addresses these types of individuals in the church. He acknowledges that they had crept into the churches in Crete, some of them had been given leadership positions in the church, and they were destroying the body of Christ. Some used false teaching, some used deceitful words, some used immoral lifestyles, and they were distracting people from Jesus and ruining the Church of Christ. So Paul writes to Titus to help him and the church identify individuals in the body of Christ who might be harming the Christian community. And we've been looking at the descriptions that Paul gives of these individuals and how he instructs us to deal with them. We’ve been focusing on the big idea from our passage:‌ ‌ Big Idea: Churches are destroyed from the inside out. Because churches are destroyed from the inside out, we need to be able to identify destructive individuals in the church.