“The church of our day urgently needs to heed the message of this second letter of Paul to Timothy. For all around us we see Christians relaxing their grasp of the gospel, fumbling it, in danger of letting it drop from their hands altogether. We, like Timothy, need to guard the truth of the gospel and proclaim it to the world around us.”
John Stott in 2 Timothy: Standing Firm in the Truth (Downers Grove: IVP, 1998) 6.