Pious Lutheran

  Today in the life of the church we remember the pastor, bishop, confessor, and martyr, St. Timothy. Timothy was born in Lystra to parents of mixed ethnicities and religions. His father was a Greek gentile and his mother Eunice was a Jew converted to Christianity. God be praised for Eunice who taught the faith to her son in spite of her husband’s unbelief. While St. Paul was in Lystra, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he met Timothy and took him under his tutelage to train him up to be a pastor in Christ’s church. Thus the letters bearing Timothy’s name were written by St. Paul to St. Timothy as instruction and encouragement to a young pastor. These letters largely focus on the responsibilities given to pastors, which is primarily to be engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching. To this day, men preparing to be pastors still study the epistles to Timothy, and are thus primarily engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching the faith. According to tradi...