I've been looking recently at the qualifications for an elder in Titus 1:6 and the qualification about children of elders. The debate on this clause flows around whether the word pistos should be translated "faithful" or "believing." Are the kids of elders required to be belivers? I was wondering if anyone had an opinion about this and why they lean the way they do. Here is the evidence.

Do you remember Lot?  What do you think of when you think of him?  Maybe Sodom and Gomorrah.  Maybe sodomy.  Maybe his greediness and poor judgment of choosing the fair green pastures of the big city.  Perhaps you think of his valor trying to rescue the two angels (whom he perceived at first to be only men) from the homosexual assault of the townsmen…and just as you’re thinking he really was a pretty good guy, you remember that he offered his virgin daughters up as sacrificial lambs in place of the angels.  I am guessing that most of you don’t think, “Righteous,” when you think of Lot.

The apostle John...merely a simple fisherman right?  Not a lot of formal education or sophisticated literary training presumably.  Known for writing the "baby Greek" beloved of all first-year Greek students.  Yet beneath the apparent simplicity of his vocabularly, a complex, interwoven construction of deep ideas.

The question at hand, can you use the same word to mean two different things in the same verse...?

Our church had a missions conference recently and the missions committee asked me to preach on a section that is commonly used for missions: Romans 10:14-15. The theme was to be God’s love for the least reached people of the world since the conference was focusing on the 10/40 window. I was more than happy to take up this topic, but as I began my study I quickly came across a problem: Paul is not talking about missions. So could I still use this section for missions?