Titus 2:1, 7-8 Doctrine and Devotion Series week 9

What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean? If someone stopped you on the street and said “hey, real quick, in one sentence, what does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?” Or perhaps they asked the question in another way—“what difference should Jesus make in your life?” How would you answer? Do you know what you would say? Titus is all about doctrine and devotion. All about how our right doctrine is vital for our spiritual lives, and then about how we must live rightly base on that doctrine. And our text today talks about that right off the bat. It talks about what a healthy disciple of Jesus looks like and how God expects all his followers to have lives that are built on both doctrine and devotion. So let’s open our text this morning, and as we do, there’s one big idea I want you to remember today: ‌‌ Big Idea: healthy discipleship involves both doctrine and practice ‌