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    GREETINGS
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  • BS239 A Pastoral and Exegetical Look at 1 & 2 Timothy

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    Dear Students! Welcome to the Course "A Pastoral and Exegetical Look at 1 & 2 Timothy".  We hope and pray you will have a wonderful experience studying with us and complete this course successfully!

    The very first thing we expect you to do is to follow our weekly schedule. We strongly encourage you to complete your lessons within the suggested time frame, which will require maintaining the pace outlined in your course materials. It is recommended that you take a genuine effort in regular forum participation. This allows an opportunity to learn from other students and enrich their learning experience by your views, ideas and discoveries, as you navigate through the course together.

    Before you get started, please, review the Course Description and the Course Schedule.

    Updates on your group activities, further instructions and other relevant information will be available at “Announcements” forum page.

    If you have any questions or messages to the course tutor, please, do this on  “Ask a question” forum page. While the tutor will provide you with support during the course, you should be aware of the self-discipline required for the successful study.

    You are welcome to submit your prayer requests to «Prayer Room» forum page.

    • GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE 

      Before you get to the lessons, it is paramount that you review the course description and the timetable. They provide important information about the topics and readings, the required assignments and their purpose, etc.

    • FORUMS

    • Background study is the key to understanding what was written and why. This week Bruce Dick :

      • explains the course objectives;

      • explains the meaning of synthetic and analytical approach to Bible study;

      • talks about  the nature of pastoral epistles

      • takes you to the background of these two letters so that you could understand not only what Paul is saying, but why.

    • There seems to be a huge disconnect in our society and our churches between what we believe and what we do.  We fail to realize  that what we believe is clearly revealed in how we live. This week Bruce Dick:

      • invites you to examine the first chapter of 1 Timothy and learn how to apply the message to your own life and ministry;

      • talks about the motivation to wipe out heresy and false teaching;

      • uses two personal illustrations to explain the point that what we believe is clearly revealed in how we live;

      • pays special attention to the heart, which is viewed as the very center of who we are, the core of our desires, our passions, our very being.
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    • Following the charge to Timothy in chapter 1, Paul now moves on to give a series of specific instructions. There is disorder in the church when men pray with sin in their lives and anger and arguments, so they are to clean up their act. And there is disorder in the church when women’s appearance is inappropriate and is a distraction to worship and the gospel.This week Bruce Dick:

      examines  how Paul develops his ideas about the priority of prayer, the privilege of prayer and the posture in prayer;

      looks at  specific guidelines about the behavior of women and their roles in the church;

      explains how women can attract others to Christ.

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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 02
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 2 is marked complete

    • Timothy  would have been a most unlikely candidate to lead а mega-church, meeting in homes all over the city.  But in this young man, Paul had seen a character and giftedness that he knew God could use to set things straight.  And to encourage him, Paul sends Timothy the first of two recorded letters, propping him up and encouraging him to keep on this path of restoring the church in Ephesus to health.  This week Bruce Dick:

      • looks at the desire for the position of leadership, the character qualities of leaders, their home life,  maturity and integrity in the community;
      • shares from his experience, how God put him in a leadership position and encourages men to serve beyond the average and ordinary ways to minister;
      • emphasizes that a healthy church uses men and women who serve from godly character. 
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      • You get a particular score in Weekly Quiz 03
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 3 is marked complete

    • The voices people in the church in Ephesus were listening to were so subtle; they couldn’t discern which path was really the right one any more. How could they become more Christlike, since that was their goal, and how could they find which voices to listen to?  They were at a fork in their spiritual “roads” and they needed some help. This week Bruce Dick:

      • invites you to examine Paul's instructions to Timothy and the church and learn how to become more Christlike by choosing the right path and listening to the voices of godliness;

      • explains the difference between the voices of deception and the voices of godliness;

      • helps  to discover four marks of a Christian servant: integrity, serving in the area of giftedness, dedication and balance.
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      • You get a particular score in Weekly Quiz 04
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 4 is marked complete

    • After lots of instruction, Paul had singled out three groups of people in the church that Timothy was to show honor to. He also focuses his attention to the two problem elements in the church. Paul wants Timothy to treat everyone in the church like family. In God's household there is an appropriate way for the leaders to treat people - exactly as one does in one's own family with great deference and respect. This week Bruce Dick:

      • looks at some general guidelines and specific instructions concerning old and young widows, elders and believing slaves;

      • pays special attention to the matter of false teachers' greed;

      • examines the problems in the church and studies Paul's guidelines on the handling of specific cases.  
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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 05
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 5 is marked complete

    • Centuries ago, there was a struggle going on with different belief systems.  Christianity was new and still quite exciting but problems were cropping up in the churches.  Some taught one thing and others taught another thing. And in the wealthy, commercial city of Ephesus, they were having their issues too. What people of Ephesus chose to believe had an effect on everything they did.This week Bruce Dick:

      • explains  that what we believe has an effect on our relationships and our finances;

      • talks about  following Jesus Christ actively, persistently,passionately and practically;

      • discusses four responsibilities of a "rich" person.
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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 06
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 6 is marked complete

    • The Christian life on this earth is as much about a destination as it is a journey. This journey is full of opportunities to grow, to learn, to practice what we believe in so many ways.  Living the Christ-centered life today requires wisdom, tact, resourcefulness and careful navigation. This week Bruce Dick:

      • shares the situation when he thought that he was going to die on the day of his surgery;

      • helps to gain practical insights from Paul's situation;

      • explores what it means to orient  life in such a way that it is centered on Christ and not on many other things the world is centered and focused on;

      • explains why we should navigate toward Gospel suffering;

      • talks about  three basic ways of public identification with Christ.
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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 07
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 7 is marked complete

    • One of the things that is tough to do when things are not going well is to keep focus. We’re trying to be good, trying to grow and plug into the Christian life, but then “Wham!” something happens and spiritually we are knocked off course.What do you do? You narrow your focus. This week Bruce Dick:

      • explains how to navigate toward Jesus Christ;

      • encourages us to navigate away from worthless words that can harm the gospel;

      • gives some specific help in the area of useful service;

      • explains how to stay focused and how to maintain a character as an individual and as a church that  honors God;

      • discusses four means of becoming and remaining a vessel for useful service.
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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 08
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 8 is marked complete

    • There is a cancer affecting the church of Jesus Christ today. It has all the characteristics of physical cancer – it attacks in a variety of places; it starts small and multiplies rapidly; it chokes and destroys quietly; and it’s so hard to detect and fight because the church cancer looks and sounds like what we have always believed.  If you know what to expect, then you need to know how to prepare. You will not find integrity, soundness, wholeness, and completeness apart from getting the Bible in you. This week Bruce Dick:

      talks about  navigating  away from self-centeredness and navigate toward truth and integrity;

      teaches  how to prepare for the battle with false teaching and find the cure for spiritual cancer;

      shares  three guidelines that help to identify false teachers and preachers;

      talks about the tactics of charlatans who espouse to preach the gospel;

      looks at the list of nine things in Paul's ministry and  life.

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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 09
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 9 is marked complete

    • False teaching is infiltrating the city of Ephesus and churches through these itinerant preachers whose gospel message is either partially or completely warped. In this situation Paul commands Timothy to preach the Word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke and exhort. The words he writes will soon be finished. And he wants these last instructions to be short, focused and memorable.This week Bruce Dick:

      • focuses  attention on five commands and four admonitions, which are not just for pastors but for all of us;

      • explains the final verses of 2 Timothy and talks about navigating through winter.
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      • You achieve a required score in Weekly Quiz 10
      • The activity Answer if you watched and read all for the week 10 is marked complete

    • заключительная неделя

      This week is the deadline for submitting your literature review and the written assignment. These are the prerequisites to obtain the permission to take the FINAL TEST.

      Keep up the good work: "The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name."

      • Step 1. Final Paper

        Please, submit your final paper (500-1500 words): Challenges and Rewards of Being a Servant of God

      • Step 2. Final Exam

        Please, take the final exam for this course. 

      • Step 3. Reading Report

        Please, submit your reading report. 

      • Step 4. Course Evaluation

        It is very important to know your opinion about this course . Please fill in the feedback form Evaluation of Online Course, which you will find below.

        If you have something to say about how this course helped you in your ministry, in your spiritual development, we will be glad to hear it. If you want to say something to the teacher, you can send any comments and suggestions to our email address : tvs.student@gmail.com 

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