1. The gospel’s impact on public life (1–2)
   • Christian relationships with rulers
   • Christian relationships with everybody
2. The ingredients of salvation; or: the gospel in transformational terms (3-8)
   • The need of salvation: “We were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.”
   • The source of salvation: “The kindness and love of God our Saviour.”
   • The ground of salvation: “Not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.”
   • The means of salvation: “He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Saviour.”
   • The goal of salvation: “So that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs, having the hope of eternal life.”
   • The evidence of salvation: “Devotion to what is good”
3. The gospel’s impact on Christians inside the local church; or: the gospel in antithetical terms (9-11)
   • Avoid foolish controversies
   • Discipline divisive people
4. The gospel’s impact on how Christians relate to Christians in other churches (12-15)

This sermon is indebted to John Stott’s “The Message of 1 Timothy and Titus”; Jonathan Leeman’s “Church Discipline” and “One Assembly”; D.A. Carson’s “Living Priorities”