The letters to Timothy and Titus are different from Paul's other letters. These letters were written not to a church but to a person. They were personal.
Timothy was Paul's young assistant who had accompanied him for years and acted as his liaison to a number of churches. This letter was written to instruct Timothy on how the church should function and how mature men and women of God should behave in it. It also provided Timothy with a list of extremely practical advice for leading a church.
One of the most famous and many times misquoted verses from Timothy is that 'money is the root of all evil.' The bible doesn't really say that money is the root of all evil, it says that the love of money is the root of all evil. Money is itself neither good nor bad; but the love of it may lead to evil. It seems to agree with a Roman saying of the time that wealth was like sea water; so far from quenching a man's thirst, it only intensified it. The more he gets, the more he wants.
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