Called to Lead: Paul’s Letters to Timothy for a New Day
Overview
In this volume, pastoral leader Anthony Robinson and biblical scholar Robert Wall expound on Paul’s two pastoral letters to Timothy, which contain crucial messages for churches today. Featuring both careful exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition, Called to Lead interprets the text of 1 and 2 Timothy as Scripture and applies it to today’s church—without shying away from vexing issues such as the church’s use of money, leadership succession, pastoral authority, and the role of Scripture.
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Key Features
- Expounds on Paul’s two pastoral letters to Timothy
- Features a careful exegetical study and dynamic contemporary exposition
- Applies the text of 1 and 2 Timothy to today’s church
- Itching Ears: Ministry in a Time of Lost and Contested Authority
- What Is the Pastor’s Most Essential Work
- Worship and the Missional Church
- Lay Leadership in the Household of God
- Pastoral Leadership in the Household of God
- Order (and Disorder) in the Household of God
- The Challenge and Opportunity of Having Money
- A Crisis of Courage
- Claiming the Power, Sharing the Suffering: A Pastoral Work Ethic
- Remember Resurrection
- The Final Charge
Top Highlights
“Perhaps this emphasis on prayer, and its centrality, suggests a corrective for worship today that is often too little about prayer and too much about sermon, sacrament, and other priorities that may be entirely misplaced—for example, entertainment. Prayer necessarily puts God at the center of the church’s worship. With this emphasis on prayer, Paul reminds pastoral leaders that a central part of their task as worship leaders is leading people into God’s presence.” (Page 60)
“Moreover, it is urgent to shift our thinking so that we imagine that, as some have observed, ‘it is not the church that has a mission in the world, but it is God’s mission that has a church in the world.’ We worship a missional God.” (Page 58)
“According to Acts, the host’s good treatment of guests, a well-known characteristic of early Christian communities, is the expectation of any household in antiquity that was headed by a virtuous person (Acts 16:15, 34). To care for others, especially for their own (cf. Gal. 6:1–10; 3 John 5–8) and extended even to strangers (cf. Luke 6:31–36), reciprocates God’s kind regard for everyone (1 Tim. 2:4). The administrator’s own hospitality, then, inculcates this practice within the household of believers, where their obedience to God aims at love toward others (1:5).” (Page 71)
“The moral philosophers of the day routinely condemned those who ‘aspire’ to leadership positions, because ambition for public office was usually motivated by greed (6:3–10) or a ‘desire’ for sexual conquest. Paul here challenges this more negative reading of human desire, suggesting that divine grace can transform the motives behind a believer’s actions. What Acts suggests, however, is that the congregation has the responsibility to determine whether this is true of every candidate who aspires to a position of leadership (cf. Acts 6:1–7).” (Page 68)
For a very long time the pastor-to-pastor Pauline letters to Timothy have been marginalized by some and grossly misinterpreted by others. It is now time for us to rediscover these letters and to put them into imaginative conversation with the contemporary realities of church and culture. That is precisely what this fine study accomplishes with exegetical care, theological acumen, and pastoral insight. Seminarians, ministers, and other leaders in Christian congregations should read Called to Lead carefully and consider together its potentially transformative implications for the church.
—Michael J. Gorman, Raymond E. Brown Chair, St. Mary’s Seminary and University
Full of down-to-earth biblical wisdom, Called to Lead reminds us that there’s not a leadership issue we can come up with that hasn’t been addressed by Scripture already. . . . The chapter on lay ministry is already worth the price of the book.
—Lillian Daniel, senior minister, First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
- Title: Called to Lead: Paul’s Letters to Timothy for a New Day
- Authors: Anthony B. Robinson, Robert W. Wall
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 255
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. 1 Timothy › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 Timothy › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780802867407, 0802867405
- Resource ID: LLS:CALLEDTOLEAD
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:28:54Z
Anthony B. Robinson travels throughout North America as a speaker, teacher, preacher, consultant, and coach serving congregations and their leaders. He is also president of the Seattle-based Congregational Leadership Northwest and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He is the author of the award-winning What’s Theology Got to Do with It?, and Stewardship for Vital Congregations. He also coauthored Called to Be Church:The Book of Acts for a New Day with Robert W. Wall
Robert W. Wall is Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Study at Seattle Pacific University.