Men, Be Sober!
Pastor Daniel Holstege exhorts Christian men to live soberly as a fruit of sound doctrine and the work of the Holy Spirit, grounding his exhortation in Titus 2 and applying the scriptural call to sobriety across all adult male church members. The article connects the doctrine of redemption through Christ to the practical Christian virtue of self-mastery and spiritual discipline in daily life.
We pastors must speak "the things which become sound doctrine" to men and women of all ages in the church (Tit. 2:1-10). The things that become sound doctrine are the Christian virtues which ought to bloom in the hearts and lives of us who know the doctrine that Jesus Christ "gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (v. 14). The sound doctrine of "the grace of God that bringeth salvation" teaches us that we...
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