Mission Logistics and Fruitful Partnership
Titus closes with names, travel, winter plans, practical support, and one final call to good works. Artemas or Tychicus may relieve Titus so he can join the writer at Nicopolis. Zenas “the lawyer” and Apollos are to be equipped for their journey. The churches must learn to meet urgent needs so that they are not unfruitful.
Where this fits in the story: Acts introduces Apollos as an eloquent Alexandrian teacher; other letters repeatedly name Tychicus as a trusted coworker; 3 John likewise treats practical support of traveling Christian workers as becoming “fellowhelpers to the truth.”