Riverside Church Sunday Message
Aug 4, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
Sarah Auger speaks on Titus 1:1-4 as part of our Unconventional series. It's possible to know the truth without ever being changed by it. But the kind of knowledge Paul writes about in…
Sarah AugerHost
It's only three chapters long, and we just really encourage you, uh, to either read the Book of Titus over these coming weeks, or to listen to it, or if you've got access to the internet, go onto the BibleProject site and you can see a whole overview of the Book of Titus with cartoons, which is always helpful.
It's brilliant to kind of understand and see this whole book as a whole, rather than just the little bits we're gonna be reading in these coming weeks.
So this book was not written by a man named Titus, but it was written to a man named Titus by Paul.
I- if you know, uh, uh, much about Paul, he's a character who wrote lots of the letters, the books that we find in the New Testament, someone who had a life-changing encounter with Jesus, and through that life-changing encounter, dedicated his life to telling others about Jesus so they too could come on and encounter Him.
We read in other parts of the New Testament that Paul and Titus weren't just people who happened to know each other, they were both trusted friends and travel companions.
In the Book of 2 Corinthians, we read these words written by Paul, "But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also the comfort you had given him." Titus being a key person to help in that moment to encourage both Paul and those that he was working with.
So as a trusted coworker, Paul tasks Titus with a really important leadership task.
So on this island of Crete, uh, there were lots of churches that had been grown in houses across the whole island, and Paul tasked Titus with going to these house churches to help them, because lots of the teaching that was going on in these churches seemed to be influenced by lots of corrupt influences that were coming into the churches.
And Tim Mackie from the BibleProject helps us to understand why Crete was such an important location, and why it was so important that the teaching that they were giving was really right.
It's only three chapters long, and we just really encourage you, uh, to either read the Book of Titus over these coming weeks, or to listen to it, or if you've got access to the internet, go onto the BibleProject site and you can see a whole overview of the Book of Titus with cartoons, which is always helpful.
It's brilliant to kind of understand and see this whole book as a whole, rather than just the little bits we're gonna be reading in these coming weeks.
So this book was not written by a man named Titus, but it was written to a man named Titus by Paul.
I- if you know, uh, uh, much about Paul, he's a character who wrote lots of the letters, the books that we find in the New Testament, someone who had a life-changing encounter with Jesus, and through that life-changing encounter, dedicated his life to telling others about Jesus so they too could come on and encounter Him.
We read in other parts of the New Testament that Paul and Titus weren't just people who happened to know each other, they were both trusted friends and travel companions.
In the Book of 2 Corinthians, we read these words written by Paul, "But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also the comfort you had given him." Titus being a key person to help in that moment to encourage both Paul and those that he was working with.
So as a trusted coworker, Paul tasks Titus with a really important leadership task.
So on this island of Crete, uh, there were lots of churches that had been grown in houses across the whole island, and Paul tasked Titus with going to these house churches to help them, because lots of the teaching that was going on in these churches seemed to be influenced by lots of corrupt influences that were coming into the churches.
And Tim Mackie from the BibleProject helps us to understand why Crete was such an important location, and why it was so important that the teaching that they were giving was really right.
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