1 TIMOTHY

Gives us the right ordering of the church in its normal condition; 2 Timothy, the path of faith when it is in an abnormal condition - when it is in disorder. You have in 1 Timothy 3: 15 the principle of Timothy's conduct.

These epistles, and that to Titus, are not addressed to churches, nor were they to be communicated to the churches as such (the church of God has them, which is another thing), although that which guided the conduct of individual Christians in them is of unceasing obligation.