Letter to Timothy: Elders and Pastoral Work

Dear Timothy, In my last letter to you, I began a discussion of the work of the ministry and the central importance of preaching. More particularly, I discussed the relation between the work of the preaching on the Lord's Day and the pastoral labors of a minister, and suggested the possibility that it was possible for pastoral work to take so much of a minister's time that inadequate time was left for sermon preparation. Dear Timothy, In my last letter to you, I began a discussion of the...