Titus
Titus is a compact field manual for planting healthy churches in hard soil. Paul left Titus on Crete, an island whose own poets, he wryly notes, called its people liars and idle gluttons, to appoint elders in every town and set right what was lacking. The letter insists that sound doctrine and good works belong together: older and younger, men and women, even household servants are to adorn the teaching of God our Savior. Twice the letter breaks into radiant summaries of grace, the kindness and loving goodness of God appearing, saving us not by our works but by his mercy.
Traditionally the apostle Paul; authorship debated by some modern scholars
AD 62–66, or later by some estimates
Titus, Paul's delegate organizing the young churches of Crete
To guide Titus in appointing elders, teaching sound doctrine, and forming communities devoted to good works.