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[Bubbles!]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

So does that mean wing-tips are out too?

Wing tips are NEVER out!

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Bubbles!

Wing tips are NEVER out!

Hey, I have a pair of smooth cordoba ones that I wear whenever I want to look conservative chic (at least in my own mind . . .)!

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Bubbles!

Wing tips are NEVER out!

I know. That's what Jesus wore.

[A2Z]

Recovery

Sheeple 19: why has Hank Hanegraaff chrismationed into the Eastern Orthodox Church?

sheeple 20: is it a deeper recovery of ‘becoming god’?

sheeple 21: church father Athanasius who gave us the theology of ‘For the Son of God became man so that we might become God’ is of the Eastern Orthodox

sheeple 22: eh … but more than a century earlier St.Irenaeus of the Roman Catholic said ‘God had become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.’

Sheeple 20: hmmm … the recovery is not deep enough …

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Concerning Teaching

LSM Co-workers: In 1 Timothy 1:3-4 Paul told his co-worker Timothy to charge some in Ephesus not to teach things other than God’s economy.

FB poster M: Is this what those verses say?

I Timothy 1:3-4 : Even as I exhorted you, when I was going into Macedonia, to remain in Ephesus in order that you might charge certain ones not to teach different things nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God's economy, which is in faith.

FB poster M: The verse says that teaching “different things” produces questionings rather than producing God’s economy.

FB poster M: So it’s actually the teaching of the correct, accurate, healthy things which produces God’s economy. It doesn’t say to teach God’s economy.

sheeple 9: It says 'to teach the healthy things so that God’s economy is produced'.

sheeples : So…o… what actually is ‘God’s economy’?

sheeple 9: It is the result of teaching healthy teaching (sound doctrine).

FB poster M: Healthy teaching is ‘according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God’ (I Timothy 1: 11).

FB poster M: The gospel is ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners’ (I Timothy 1: 15); ‘believe on Him unto eternal life’ (I Timothy 1: 16)

Teaching things different from healthy teaching and giving heed to myths and unending genealogies, would produce questionings rather than …
ReV: God’s economy, which is in faith
KJV: godly edifying which is in faith
NIV: advancing God's work--which is by faith
NLT: live a life of faith in God
ESV: the stewardship from God that is by faith
WNT: true stewardship for God, which only exists where there is faith

sheepless: So…o …, ‘God’s economy’ is not a teaching. That’s sooo sad!

SAD.

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Concerning Teaching

FB poster M: The Recovery Version outline section header for these verses (I Timothy 1: 3-4) says “God’s Economy versus Different Teachings”.

FB poster M: This is comparing cause X to effect Y, rather than comparing cause X to effect X and cause Y to effect Y.

FB poster M: According to the verses, it should be:

Different things, myths, unending genealogies ------> questionings
Healthy teaching ------> God’s economy

sheeple 9: It should be "God's Economy vs Questionings" or "Healthy Teaching vs Different Teachings"

FB poster M: Witness Lee taught (his definition of) God’s economy, over, and over, and over, and over again. He put many interpretations and stories through his lens of God’s economy. But the Bible doesn’t say to do that.

FB poster M: The Bible says to teach the healthy things, and that teaching and those healthy things will PRODUCE God’s economy.

FB poster M: By teaching God’s economy, it means LSM LCs are missing the mark of focusing on teaching the healthy things which result in God’s economy.

sheepless : Oh NO … ! The outline header for I Timothy 1: 3-4 - “God’s Economy versus Different Teachings” is misleading?

sheepless : It’s M I S L E A D I N G !!!!!

sheeple 9: The co-workers have missed the mark ? ... ...

[Sons to Glory!]

There's no denying that that the Greek word oikonomia was the source of our word economy. But personally, the word "economy" never quite caught on with me. Some here in Scottsdale use it, but I prefer administration or edifying/building up. Dispensing and stewardship aren't bad either. At least for me . . . Jus sayin

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

There's no denying that that the Greek word oikonomia was the source of our word economy. But personally, the word "economy" never quite caught on with me. Some here in Scottsdale use it, but I prefer administration or edifying/building up. Dispensing and stewardship aren't bad either. At least for me . . . Jus sayin

I agree with you about the English word economy making it hard to understand were oikonomia is used in the New Testament because our common use of economy refers to something other than a household matter as the Greek word which means house law, and its useage had more to do with servants serving their master faithfully. Therefore I prefer the word stewardship. I’ve reviewed every New Testament use of oikonomia and if consistently translated to stewardship, it greatly improved ease of understanding the whole sentence each time.