Faithful Care

This tenth message on the Biblical family begins with Paul exhorting Timothy in the right way to correct other believers in the church - he was to implore older believers like they were a father or a mother and younger believers like they were a brother or a sister. Concerning church widows, Paul was expecting them to be assisted - any widows with family members were to be cared for by their family, but true widows who had been left desolate and isolated were to be cared for by the church. Finally, Paul was explaining the serious danger of someone not providing for their own household, so he charged them to be above reproach (unblamable) - any professing believer who does not take care of their own family has denied what they professed to believe, and is worse than an unbeliever.