Guard the Fire Without Hiding It: The Witness Our Neighbors Can See

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A single Sunday from 2 Timothy 1:3-14 for a church that can name Jesus in the room and still leave the fence, the lunch table, and the school lot empty of the news. Paul writes from a chain to Timothy: sincere faith that lived in a house, a gift to stir, no spirit of fear but power, love, and self-control, no shame of the Lord's testimony or of the prisoner, a Savior who abolished death, sound words held, the good thing guarded through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. Matthew 5:14-16 names a lamp on a stand, not under a basket. Romans 1:16 names a gospel Paul is not ashamed of because it is God's power for salvation. God-given courage protects and shares the gospel entrusted to us; covering the fire so the neighbors never see it is not how this house keeps it. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.