Timothy first appears in Scripture in one of Paul's missionary adventures in Acts. Paul was on a return journey when he met this young Jewish Christian. In no time Timothy was part of the team and great things unfolded as ‘Team Christ-in-me’ lived, travelled and served together.
Pretty beautiful, eh? If only we could get an insight into the inner-workings of their relationship – oh how I would love to sit in on one of their mentoring sessions.
Wait a minute...
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy, my loyal child in the faith… 1 Timothy 1:1-2
“What?! Paul wrote a letter to Timothy, and there’s still a copy we can read?”
Yep, the Bible is full of great stuff like this. In fact there are two letters to Timothy. Let’s take a closer look…