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Extinguish the Desperate Housewidows
Sun 3/2
By: Matthew Kruse
The church at Ephesus has a widow problem. Younger widows were getting on 'the rolls', making a pledge to serve Jesus and His church, but the quickly reneging when the first handsome bachelor strolled by. On top of that, these desperate housewidows had too much time on their hands and were providing a platform for the false teachers, gossiping up a storm, and basically joining sides with satan. Paul tells Timothy to put some rigorous guidelines in place for just who gets included on the widow roles of the church. In doing so, he praises godly widows for the beautiful lives of faith they have lived and challenges younger widows to live up to that standard. Until they do, they should not be given the privilege of serving as a church widow but should be encouraged to be about the work of building a home to the glory of God.
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