Broadway Baptist Church Maryville Tennessee

Paul's Christian experience, like that of our Lord, was marked by suffering, imprisonments, beatings, mocking's, and finally martyrdom. There were those at Ephesus (Hymenaeus and Alexander – 1 Tim. 1:20 and Phygelus and Hermogenes – 2 Tim. 1:15), as well as in Corinth, that were ashamed of Paul's sufferings, and even questioned the legitimacy of his Apostleship. Paul urges Timothy to “stand tall and share in the sufferings of Christ”.