Entry 4
The following day we explored the island of Crete. I began the day with the Lord studying the island’s Biblical history.
“For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—”
Titus 1:5 NKJV
Crete was a place of the establishment of prophetic order and flow in the new church. It was a place of promotion!
“if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.”
Titus 1:6-9 NKJV
These were the criteria for promotion within the church. Crete was a site of qualification for spiritual promotions within the new church! A place of appointment.