Learning from the GREATEST OF SINNERS
Wouldn’t it be thrilling to be introduced to the star runner in the athletics club? Or to the most valued employee in a successful business? Or to the top student at a college? But would you listen to one who is described as the “chief” (NKJV) or “foremost” (ESV) of sinners? Yet, that is precisely what Paul calls himself in 1 Timothy 1:15.
Consider, for a moment, a well-informed first-century Jew. If you asked him who the greatest sinner was, he might
