Young Men’s Ministry
Timothy’s Young Men’s Ministry
We’re glad our path will cross today’s Moment. We live in a strategic moment of history but We believe the “Timothy Young Men Ministries” will help us be dedicated to helping others as we help ourselves to understand the times and live effectively as Christian Young men. “You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus” – 2 Timothy 2:1.
Timothy Young Men Ministry (TYMM) is a continued sharing and learning of our experiences and will focus on LIFE LONG MENTORING MODELED on CHRIST’S LIFE. As a ministry of Bethel Christian Center, we firmly believe in the role of the local church and the value of being part of a church family. Because of this our Life Stories will always be within the context of the local church, with a focus placed on both MENTORING and practical application through direct experience. Jesus is our model in all things and it is our goal to model the way we DIRECT (TYMM), on the way He walked with His disciples on a day-to-day basis. There are three main ways that Jesus trained His disciples, which we incorporate in the way that we will Live an open life. We see from His life that He showed them what to do, then He did it with them, and lastly He sent them out to do it – what a powerful recipe!
In the three and half years that Jesus lived with the disciples they shared life in every aspect. They had deep meaningful relationships, which made it possible for Him to speak the truth in love and directly into their lives. At TYMT it is not our intent to be a distant lifeless ministry, but a place where we ARE family, where we care for one another and know each other. Everything we do is garnered towards building this. We value community living, with deep meaningful relationships at its core and believe that without relationship, effective discipleship goal oriented cannot take place.
- Instruction:
Command and teach these things. Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. (1 Timothy 4:11-12 RSV)
2. Continue to mediate the word:
Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you. Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress. Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. (1 Timothy 4:13-16 RSV)
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the council of elders laid their hands upon you. (1 Timothy 4:14 RSV)
Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress. (1 Timothy 4:15 RSV), Light your Path: Grant us the knowledge that we need
To solve the questions of the mind. Light Thou our candles while we read
To keep our hearts from going blind. Enlarge our vision to behold
The wonders Thou hast wrought of old.
3. Prayer
Thank you, Lord, for this mighty Word. You sent your Word and healed men; you spoke and worlds came into being; you spoke and delivered people by the Word of truth. Lord, we thank you for the power of your Word; the most powerful force in all the universe is the Word of truth. We pray that we may give heed to it, believe it, accept it, live by it, walk in it, work by it, let it change our lives to be the men and women you want us to be in this generation. We ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.
5 Lessons we learn from the Young Timothy
1.) He didn’t come from the right background.
He was biracial. He was neither fully Jew, nor fully Greek.
Acts 16:1 – “Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.”
Your heritage isn’t a factor for God. He can use you despite the advantages or disadvantages your ethnicity and other background factors bring.
2.) His father wasn’t his spiritual leader.
It seems Timothy’s father was an unbelieving gentile, leaving his mother and grandmother the responsibility of raising Timothy in the ways of God.
2 Timothy 1:5 – “I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.”
Timothy had some responsibility for his spiritual life and was responsible to acknowledge the spiritual influences God did place in his life.
3.) He wasn’t Paul.
Timothy was second-string. He was Paul’s representative. Paul makes this point abundantly clear in 1 Corinthians 4:16–17 – “I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.”
‘Hey, Corinth, I’m sending Timothy to you so that he will remind you of how I live. Just let him point you to me so that I can point you to Christ.’ Really? Yes, really. That was Timothy’s role. God did not appoint Timothy to be the role model, but the one pointing to the role model.
4.) He needed to avoid temptation.
Timothy could be tempted; he was not fail-proof. Paul warns Timothy to be careful in this regard at the close of his first letter to Timothy. “O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you” (1 Timothy 6:20–21).
Timothy had to be instructed to avoid certain conversations and controversies so that he would not be tempted to buy into false knowledge and swerve from the faith. Early in the second letter, Timothy had to be reminded not to be ashamed of the testimony of Jesus nor of Paul (2 Timothy 1:8).
Sometimes, we feel spiritually inferior because we struggle and stumble. Sometimes, we think that if we were really godly, we wouldn’t have some of the desires we do. That’s not the Bible talking, that’s pride. According to the Bible, the mark of a godly person is not someone who isn’t tempted, but someone who chooses to obey God instead of giving into their desires (Galatians 5:16).
Despite your inner desire for the things of this world, God will use you! Resist those desires and trust in him.
5.) He had a heart for God.
Look at how Paul describes him to the church in Philippi, “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon…. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know Timothy’s proven worth…” (Philippians 2:19–22a).
The reality was that Timothy had been touched by grace. Timothy knew he wasn’t special, but that his Savior was. Timothy knew that his sins, as small as we might have thought them to be, deserved eternal hell, punishment, and separation from God, yet God being rich in mercy provided a way for redemption through Jesus. And, not only did God provide a way for salvation, but now, as a follower of Jesus Christ, Timothy, the foolish, bi-racial, sickly-stomached youth could be used to shape a church for the glory of God! God uses the weak things of the world so that through us, his surpassing grace, glory, and strength may be shown. Feel you aren’t useful? Need a reminder of God’s methodology? God uses the willing. God uses the available. God uses the weak.
He uses us. He uses us not because he needs us, but because he wants us to experience the glory of service, submission, and spirit-infused living. God wants us to be the vessel through whom he works. What’s needed is a surrendered heart that puts Jesus first. Reading the word: The Youth with a Vision and Purpose; is God Involved in my Decisions, does God control your Agenda? WHO IS YOUR MANTOR?… WHOM AM I ACCOUNTABLE TOO?
Genesis 24:1 -4 Look at Abraham Instructions? How do our families get involved in our Lives?