TIMOTHY CAMP - Leadership Building Skills for Young Leaders

based on the MAXWEL STUDY BIBLE
A FULL SURVEY of the BOOKS 1st and 2nd TIMOTHY

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The Book of 1 Timothy amounts to a leadership training manual. 

Written by the apostle Paul to his young apprentice, Timothy, it contains not only good instruction for emerging leaders, but also lists the quali￾fi cations of a leader.

Paul and Timothy provide the clearest mentoring relationship in Scripture of any since Elijah and Elisha. Their story begins in Acts 16:1–3, when Timothy joined Paul in Lystra. Paul invested in him for a long time, taking him on short-term mission trips, letting him preach, leaving him to pastor a young church, and writing instructional letters to him while apart. Paul would do anything for his young protégé. 

Note how Paul developed Timothy as a leader.
First, we spot the Principle of Purposeful Pursuit.
Paul proactively identifi ed a young leader he could develop. 

He had been to Lystra and seen Timothy. His antennas were up. He insisted his team go back to challenge and invite the young man to join them.

Second, we see the Principle of Proven Potential. 

Paul did his homework on Timothy. He recognized him as a diamond in the rough. 

He watched Timothy prove himself in his hometown while growing up, and he knew Timothy’s family and the spiritual stock he came from.

Third, Paul demonstrated the Principle of Practical Patience. 

Paul patiently selected and mentored Timothy. 
He was careful not to act prematurely and even advised his student not 

to “lay hands on anyone hastily” (5:22). 
He believed his team had acted too quickly in letting John Mark travel with them (Acts 12:25), and he didn’t want to pick fruit too early.

Fourth, notice the Principle of the Participatory Process. 

Paul recognized that he was but one participant in a long line of contributors in Timothy’s life. 

In his second letter, Paul reminds Timothy of his other mentors, including his mother and grandmother. Timothy had a strong heritage before Paul came along; Paul simply played his role in the process.

Finally, we see the Principle of Passion and Pricetags. 

Paul made clear the price of leadership in both of his letters to Timothy. 

After Paul found Timothy in Lystra, a mob dragged the apostle out of the city, stoned him, and left him for dead. When he recovered, he returned, grabbed Timothy, and finished his work there. This kind of passion for leadership drove Paul to reproduce leaders like Timothy.