Christians shouldn’t neglect having a “theology for sadness,” said Ohio-based Pastor Alistair Begg at The Gospel Coalition’s West Coast Conference.
Begg, the Scottish senior pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on the “Truth for Life” program, gave a speech Thursday at the conference that was focused on 2nd Timothy 4:1–8.
Beginning his speech with the statement that “there is nothing like the prospect of death to clarify the issues of life,” Begg explained that while writing 2nd Timothy, the Apostle Paul was “identifying the fact that he is on his way out.”
“He refers to his passing as his departure, his analusis, a favorite word in Greek at the time for the unyoking of an oxen or for the drawing of an anchor or the taking down of a tent,” explained Begg.
“He realizes that the baton of faith needs to be passed on to another generation. His gaze is on his young lieutenant, Timothy. And he is able to let him know, surely for his great encouragement, that God has sustained…
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