<p>2:11 <i>For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men- </i>&ldquo;The grace of God&hellip; bringing salvation to all men&hellip;&rdquo; is an allusion to the great commission to <i>preach</i> salvation to all men. But here, grace is said to do this. The conclusion seems unavoidable: grace and the preacher are inextricably linked. The experience of grace is the essential motive behind all witness, and the witness itself is about God's saving grace. That salvation is by grace enables us to look forward with eagerness rather than uncertainty to the second coming, and our lives are thereby changed. &quot;The grace of God&hellip; teaches us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts&hellip; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ&quot; (Tit. 2:11-13). The word 'appearing' refers both to the appearing of grace now, and the appearing of the Lord at the second coming (:13). The ultimate outworking of grace will be at the Lord's return, when we shall be raised from the dead and this mortal shall put on immortality.</p><p>The Greek for &ldquo;all men&rdquo; suggests that God&rsquo;s grace that brings salvation to all has appeared; but we have to take that salvation to others and they must respond to it. We therefore can conclude that potentially all men could be saved, but they will not be because the preachers haven&rsquo;t taken the message of God&rsquo;s grace to them and they haven&rsquo;t all responded to it. See on 1:3. In the context, Paul has just addressed various categories- old men, old women, elderly female alcoholic Christians, young men and slaves. God's grace has appeared to &quot;all men&quot; in the sense of all kinds of people; and His desire to save teaches all people, of whatever type and station, the transformation of their lives which is appropriate in their situation.</p>