{"id":9281,"date":"2024-05-14T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:18:34","slug":"%e6%8e%a8%e5%9f%ba%e5%8f%a4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2024\/05\/%e6%8e%a8%e5%9f%ba%e5%8f%a4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tychicus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tychicus was an incredibly important coworker and long-time assistant to Paul, who often entrusted him with significant tasks and relied heavily on him. Tychicus was from Asia, and his name means &#8220;fortunate.&#8221; He was fortunate to follow Paul, learning to serve the Lord. In Tychicus, we can see Paul&#8217;s reflection; their loyalty to the Lord, love for people, and zeal for the Gospel were almost identical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tychicus also served as Paul&#8217;s messenger, delivering the letters to the Colossians (Colossians 4:7) and Philemon (Colossians 4:9). Paul&#8217;s high regard for Tychicus is evident in his letter to the Ephesian church, where he calls Tychicus a &#8220;faithful servant in the Lord.&#8221; At the end of Paul&#8217;s third missionary journey, Tychicus, as one of the representatives from the churches in Asia, likely arrived in Jerusalem with Paul (Acts 20:4). In Titus 3:12, Paul states his intention to send Tychicus to Titus. Then, 2 Timothy 4:12 records Paul sending him from Rome to Ephesus, implying that Tychicus was one of the faithful companions serving with Paul during his final trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tychicus was an incredibly important coworker and long-time assistant to Paul, who often entrusted him with significant tasks and relied heavily on him. Tychicus was from Asia, and his name means &#8220;fortunate.&#8221; He was fortunate to follow Paul, learning to serve the Lord. In Tychicus, we can see Paul&#8217;s reflection; their loyalty to the Lord, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}