Everyone Ought to Speak Respectfully to Everyone Else in the Church and in the Home

How is the minister to treat those whom he is teaching and showing the faith? 1Timothy 5:1–2 looks forward to the second reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that as the minister maintains his authority, a great part of the example that the faith produces in him is to be found in how he treats every single person in the church.