No Half Measures for Pros Only?

Yesterday I shared some observations on 1 Timothy 4.  There Paul exhorts his spiritual son to hard work in following Christ.

Specifically he instructs Timothy to:

Verse	Instruction
6	Be a servant of Christ
	Be nourished on the words of faith
	Follow sound doctrine
7	Ignore worldly fables
	Discipline yourself for godliness
10	Fix your hope on God
	Be an Example
11	Prescribe and teach these things
13	Pay attention to reading, exhortation, and teaching
14	Do not neglect your spiritual gift
15	Do not neglect these things
	Be absorbed in them
16	Pay close attention to yourself
	Pay close attention to your teaching
	Persevere in these things

Now Paul and Timothy were the pros, right?  So this focus applies to them, those who are leaders in the Body.  For those of us who are simply members of a church this just does not apply…  Well, look at Paul’s exhortation to Timothy in verse 11, “prescribe and teach these things”.

Timothy is supposed to tell those in the Ephesus church to do these things, and teach them how.  Seems like Matthew 28:20, Ephesians 4:11 – 16, and 2 Timothy 2:2.  We are not off that hook.  We are to be all in.