I recently read a report about cookbooks in America. Nearly 1000 of them are published each year, many of them glossy, full-color, and very expensive. But at the same time, fewer and fewer people are cooking, and increasing numbers are eating in restaurants. The reporter interviewed one lady, a portfolio manager in New York, who has acquired 16 cookbooks in the last four years and who subscribes to two cooking magazines. Well, there are more Bible translations, study aids and devotional books now than ever.
Christian publishing is a big business in America.
But for all that, people are reading and studying their Bible less and less. Titus wanted to change that. He wanted to turn the older people of Crete into fresh learners, drawing them into a diet of healthy doctrine. We're never to old to study God's Word. Nine different character traits begin to develop in our lives.