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Extinguish the Neglect
Sun 2/24
By: Ajay Thomas
We've heard of deadbeat dads, but what about deadbeat kids? In the Ephesian church, it was the children who dropped a bundle off at the doorstep, and that bundle was their aging parents. Instead of caring for those who had cared for them, the Ephesians shirked their responsibility towards their relatives and abandoned their widowed mothers. As a result, the church was burdened with footing the bill for these folks at the expense of helping the widows who really had no one to care for them. Paul points out that failing to provide for ones relatives is irreconcilably inconsistent with the Christian Gospel and Christian faith. To claim allegiance to Jesus and simultaneously to disavow mom and dad doesn't make sense. And so, in keeping with the Gospel, Timothy is to urge the Ephesian children to provide for their parents and thus repay their many years of kindness and care.
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