Using Titus chapter 2 and Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, create and present a plan for one

person to support other persons and how this would build up believers or a group of believers.
You choose if it is a one-on-one, small group, or class setting.

Although and because I am a man, I would like to point out the kind of discipleship
that is seen, encouraged, and explained in Titus chapter 2 – older women discipling
the younger ones. And this kind, I believe, is most effective in a small group setting
where they can freely talk, share, explain, and pray for one another.

I see my wife’s constant struggle in trying to be a better wife and mother every
day. And even when surrounded by older women, no one seems to teach, really
teach spiritual motherhood in a constant, personal modelling. She sat under the
teaching of various women and read extensively, but did not know many believing
women intimately enough to imitate them.

Younger women may learn from the teaching and example of pastors, but could not
learn from them what it uniquely means to be a godly woman — not in the same
way they could learn it from fellow women. One woman, or a group of women, has
to welcome their fellow women into their home and answer many questions even
into the early hours of the morning, and take them under their wings especially in
the first years of marriage and motherhood.

Christian women need spiritual mothers. Paul showed this when he wrote to Titus
to appoint elders in who could “give instruction in sound doctrine” (Titus 1:9), yet
specified who could intimately “teach what accords with sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1)
to the young women in the church: the older women in the church (Titus 2:3).
Spiritual mothers were needed to model godly womanhood in their particular
culture and time, and we still need the same today.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV

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Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.
They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and
children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own
husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

God’s provision for his Cretan daughters amidst an ungodly culture was the ministry
of the elders and the intentional ministry of the older women. Paul called for the
older women to model godly character and “to teach what is good” to the younger
women in the meaningful context of their homes. He wanted the older women to
show and tell what godly womanhood looked like in everyday life.

Spiritual motherhood is discipleship. It covers the spectrum from evangelism to

nurturing others to spiritual maturity. It is a woman’s response to the Great
Commission, teaching younger women to observe everything Christ commanded
(Matthew 28:20).

When Paul refers to these exemplary older women in the church, he does not
mention their giftings or charisma; he highlights their character. He does not
mention a specific age or threshold; he emphasizes their spiritual maturity.

His primary concern is whether they can model godly womanhood to the younger
women through their reverent behavior, wholesome speech, and self-control (Titus
2:3; 2:7). Therefore, the godly characters mentioned in the beatitudes mentioned
by Jesus in his sermon on the mount are to be seen in the life of women discipling
women. They have to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world, a city on a hill
that cannot be hidden.

Because unlike those who “profess to know God, but . . . deny him by their works”
(Titus 1:16), a spiritual mother affirms God’s word with her life. Her example
corroborates her exegesis, and she can say with Paul, “Be imitators of me, as I am
of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1).

As a pastor, I see more clearly now the urgent need for women discipleship in a
small group setting. Women influencing and discipling their children, and serving
and loving their husbands. Blessed be the Name of the Lord!