Competent Workmen for the Gospel

Within the walls of the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy stands an unfinished marble sculpture by the great Michelangelo Bounarroti, a competent workman reknowned for rightly handling marble. In similar fashion, the minister of the Word is called to be a competent workman for the gospel, rightly handling the word of truth. This is the imagery Paul uses in his exhortation to Timothy in 2:14-19.