WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.299 Last week, we took the early church as our example. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:06.400 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.580 and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and 00:00:10.580 --> 00:00:14.359 to prayer. And we reflected together what it 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.359 means for us as a college community to participate 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:22.199 in the church being one, holy, Catholic and apostolic. 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:25.440 Meeting one another, first of all, as brothers 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.379 and sisters in Christ and supporting one another. 00:00:29.250 --> 00:00:33.929 meeting in prayer and praise to express our faith 00:00:33.929 --> 00:00:36.990 and dependence on God and so live in the holiness 00:00:36.990 --> 00:00:41.850 that is Christ's. To remember that we are part 00:00:41.850 --> 00:00:45.049 of a church that spans the ages and the globe, 00:00:45.310 --> 00:00:49.030 having the church all over the world in mind, 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:51.310 the persecuted church, the missionary church, 00:00:51.549 --> 00:00:55.850 the church in the past and the church to come, 00:00:55.969 --> 00:00:58.289 and all the different expressions of church. 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.280 longing for that wholeness of the church. And 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.459 then, of course, being devoted to the Scriptures, 00:01:06.739 --> 00:01:10.920 the apostles' teaching, including what we hear 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.420 from Paul into Timothy about the Scriptures, 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:19.680 which by now include 2 Timothy and other of Paul's 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:24.819 writings as well. So if we had four adjectives. 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.980 Last week, this week, we have four nouns in the 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:33.980 Greek and in the ESV, changed into verbs in the 00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:38.400 NIV, doesn't matter much. But four, to talk about 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:40.439 the usefulness of Scripture, I want to focus 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:47.379 on 2 Timothy 3, 16. A well -known verse, often 00:01:47.379 --> 00:01:50.359 used in doctrinal discussions, and rightly so, 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:54.459 but it is not actually a verse that is, first 00:01:54.459 --> 00:01:57.959 of all, about Scripture, about the nature of 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.879 Scripture. It doesn't talk about Scripture being 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.159 revelation, being reliable, trustworthy, which, 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:07.299 of course, we read about all over the Bible. 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:11.360 This is not actually a verse about what Scripture 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:16.439 is. It's a verse about how Timothy will make 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:21.159 good use of Scripture. And the terms that I used 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.599 here are specifically about ministering Scripture 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.599 to others, which is why revelation and faith 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.139 and so on are not terms that are used, although 00:02:31.139 --> 00:02:33.300 Scripture is, of course, useful for revelation. 00:02:33.620 --> 00:02:36.680 It reveals to us who God is. It is very useful 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.900 for believing. It's the thing we should believe 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:41.400 in. But these are not the terms used because 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:46.919 it's about Timothy's ministry to others. And 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:48.919 I was wondering, as I reflected further on that, 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:54.159 whether it is quite specifically whether those 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:59.139 four nouns are chosen really because of the specific 00:02:59.139 --> 00:03:02.659 circumstances in Ephesus with Paul about to die 00:03:02.659 --> 00:03:09.759 and passing on his role to Timothy. But then 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.259 I observed that I think Timothy's context is 00:03:12.259 --> 00:03:16.819 quite similar to our own. And those four terms 00:03:16.819 --> 00:03:20.840 are inspired, I think, by what Jesus says about 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.159 the role of the Holy Spirit. In John 16. And 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.099 therefore, I reckon that those four nouns are 00:03:28.099 --> 00:03:31.800 not just specifically for Timothy's situation. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:34.979 Of course, in other contexts, if we talk about 00:03:34.979 --> 00:03:37.439 the usefulness of Scripture, we might choose 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.180 three, five different terms, and that would still 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:44.219 be true. But I think those four are important 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:48.919 and a good list to have even for us today. How 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:53.069 is Scripture profitable, useful? in our ministry 00:03:53.069 --> 00:03:56.389 to ourselves, in ministering Scripture to ourselves 00:03:56.389 --> 00:04:02.069 and to others. First, we are told that all Scripture 00:04:02.069 --> 00:04:06.949 is God -breathed. That seems to be a phrase that 00:04:06.949 --> 00:04:10.569 Paul created. God -breathed, not strictly speaking 00:04:10.569 --> 00:04:14.689 inspired Scripture, but expired Scripture. And 00:04:14.689 --> 00:04:17.209 we could move from there doctrinally to the truthfulness, 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:20.689 reliability of Scripture, which is all perfectly 00:04:20.689 --> 00:04:25.250 true. But I think the reason that Paul talks 00:04:25.250 --> 00:04:28.970 about Scripture being God -breathed here is twofold. 00:04:29.029 --> 00:04:31.689 One is there is no such thing as God -breathed 00:04:31.689 --> 00:04:35.930 gobbledygook. That wouldn't really help us, would 00:04:35.930 --> 00:04:38.949 it, if God breathed out gobbledygook? It would 00:04:38.949 --> 00:04:43.050 be inerrant gobbledygook, presumably. But what's 00:04:43.050 --> 00:04:45.810 the use of that? No, because God is who he is, 00:04:46.029 --> 00:04:48.730 a loving God who wants to communicate with us. 00:04:49.180 --> 00:04:51.759 What is God -breathed is not going to be gobbledygook. 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:56.100 It's going to be useful as well as being truthful 00:04:56.100 --> 00:04:58.300 and reliable. It can only be useful by being 00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:01.279 truthful and reliable. But it's the usefulness 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.899 that is the focus here. And I think Paul is alluding 00:05:05.899 --> 00:05:09.600 to God -breathing his word on other occasions. 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.980 Genesis 2, he breathes into Adam, which the Greek 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:19.269 translates as Anthropos. which the ESV translates 00:05:19.269 --> 00:05:21.850 here as man of God and the NIV as servant of 00:05:21.850 --> 00:05:25.490 God. So we have that same term, breath, God, 00:05:25.709 --> 00:05:29.990 man, anthropos, human being, whatever you translate 00:05:29.990 --> 00:05:34.310 it in this verse. God breathes life into human 00:05:34.310 --> 00:05:39.069 being. So scripture being God breathed suggests 00:05:39.069 --> 00:05:42.790 that scripture is a means of making us fully 00:05:42.790 --> 00:05:47.829 alive as human beings. If we want to be a human 00:05:47.829 --> 00:05:52.250 being fully alive, fully in the potential of 00:05:52.250 --> 00:05:54.930 God's design for human beings, we need Scripture. 00:05:55.990 --> 00:05:58.350 The other allusion then would be to Ezekiel 37, 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:02.250 where the dead bones are receiving the breath 00:06:02.250 --> 00:06:05.250 of God and come to life again. So that even after 00:06:05.250 --> 00:06:08.990 sin, there is the fullness of life through God's 00:06:08.990 --> 00:06:12.149 Spirit, through God -breathed Scripture. Because 00:06:12.149 --> 00:06:14.269 God -breathed Scripture is useful, first of all, 00:06:14.269 --> 00:06:18.870 for teaching. I find that really quite encouraging, 00:06:18.949 --> 00:06:21.689 that the first word being used here is teaching. 00:06:24.689 --> 00:06:27.709 It's not that Scripture is kind of useful for 00:06:27.709 --> 00:06:30.750 an inspired thought for the day, and then, yes, 00:06:30.850 --> 00:06:33.370 if you are particularly intellectually inclined, 00:06:33.490 --> 00:06:35.709 you might want to spend more time studying it 00:06:35.709 --> 00:06:38.310 and teaching it and so on. No, the first thing 00:06:38.310 --> 00:06:39.970 that's said about the usefulness of Scripture 00:06:39.970 --> 00:06:44.410 is for teaching. Before we get to instruction, 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:49.939 I thought, why not instruction first? Torah, 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.959 the Hebrew term, is instruction. Is there no 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.100 Greek equivalent? Well, there is. It's coming 00:06:56.100 --> 00:06:58.680 up later on. Training could be to say there's 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.339 instruction. There are other terms for that. 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.660 But Paul doesn't speak about instruction because 00:07:05.660 --> 00:07:09.459 it's not about obedience, first of all, and about 00:07:09.459 --> 00:07:12.759 this is what you do, but teaching, which implies 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:17.149 learning, which implies understanding. God wants 00:07:17.149 --> 00:07:20.689 us to understand. And so what we do as theological 00:07:20.689 --> 00:07:24.430 students is a jolly good thing, not some sort 00:07:24.430 --> 00:07:28.350 of specialist thing that is slightly embarrassing 00:07:28.350 --> 00:07:30.529 because Scripture is really for other things. 00:07:30.629 --> 00:07:33.470 No, Scripture is there for teaching, for understanding, 00:07:33.670 --> 00:07:36.509 for learning. What are we to learn? What are 00:07:36.509 --> 00:07:38.870 we to teach? Well, these terms are actually quite 00:07:38.870 --> 00:07:46.519 important in the pastorals. The first chapter 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:51.680 of this letter to Timothy 1 .11, a teacher. And 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.399 of this gospel, I was appointed a herald and 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.759 an apostle and a teacher. So what does he teach? 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:04.560 He teaches the gospel. The gospel that he proclaims 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:08.779 and of which he is an apostle. Same in 3 .10, 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.279 the beginning of our reading today. You, however, 00:08:11.300 --> 00:08:14.639 know all about my teaching. First thing he says. 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.740 Then my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.019 love, endurance. My teaching. What's my teaching? 00:08:22.220 --> 00:08:27.379 Is that what you are meant to learn? 1 Timothy 00:08:27.379 --> 00:08:32.279 2, 7. I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying. And 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.379 a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles. 00:08:35.580 --> 00:08:41.100 Paul took pride in being a teacher. A teacher 00:08:41.100 --> 00:08:48.419 of the gospel. And so he entrusts Timothy to 00:08:48.419 --> 00:08:51.440 find other people, many witnesses, to entrust 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:55.340 to them reliable people who are qualified to 00:08:55.340 --> 00:08:59.759 teach others. Paul is really into teaching because 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:03.360 he knows that God wants us to understand, not 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.299 just to blindly follow and be obedient, but to 00:09:06.299 --> 00:09:09.799 understand him and his purposes, his agenda. 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.860 What is the teaching? It's the teaching. through 00:09:15.860 --> 00:09:23.179 which we are saved. 1 Timothy 4 .16 Watch your 00:09:23.179 --> 00:09:27.240 life and doctrine closely. The NIV translates 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.980 the word teaching, sometimes instruction, sometimes 00:09:29.980 --> 00:09:32.519 teaching, sometimes doctrine. It's the same word 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.419 here in the Greek. Watch your life and teaching 00:09:35.419 --> 00:09:39.259 closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.559 you will save both yourself and your hearers. 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:48.059 It's the teaching by which we are saved. So I 00:09:48.059 --> 00:09:49.860 think we don't go far wrong in thinking that 00:09:49.860 --> 00:09:52.379 the teaching is primarily what, in fact, verse 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:55.600 15, immediately preceding our verse 16, talks 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:02.039 about. Timothy having known the scriptures, which 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:05.639 are able to make you wise for salvation through 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:10.320 faith in Jesus Christ. The teaching is for wisdom, 00:10:10.379 --> 00:10:15.360 for salvation, through faith in Jesus Christ. 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.940 So there's the encouragement and challenge for 00:10:18.940 --> 00:10:22.179 us, the encouragement that teaching, working 00:10:22.179 --> 00:10:24.559 hard with your minds on intellectual understanding 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.600 is a good thing. That's what Scripture is there 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.860 for. We're not abusing Scripture by being academic 00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:31.059 about it. That's what Scripture is there for. 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.059 But a warning as well, make sure that a teaching 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:39.620 is always aimed at wisdom for salvation through 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:46.279 faith in Jesus Christ. The second thing is reproof 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:52.919 or rebuking in the NIV. It's not the thing that 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.240 I would have thought of as the second thing to 00:10:55.240 --> 00:11:01.080 say. Scripture is useful for teaching and application. 00:11:02.139 --> 00:11:04.519 We want to hear and learn Scripture and then 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.799 we want to apply it. And of course, reproof, 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:10.279 rebuking is one form of application. But why 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:13.220 highlight this? Why having this very broad term 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:17.159 teaching and then going to a quite narrow application 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:23.059 point, rebuke? Again, it may be the context, 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:27.779 but I do think there's something about Scripture 00:11:27.779 --> 00:11:31.340 that remains permanently true. It needs to rebuke 00:11:31.340 --> 00:11:36.580 us. It needs to reprove our false. thinking our 00:11:36.580 --> 00:11:41.899 false attitudes because without that we are not 00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:44.639 going to learn to be trained in righteousness 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:49.360 does this mean we are looking out to be constantly 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:54.120 told off and put down no i don't think so i do 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.740 think that we may need to learn the habit of 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:59.559 when we ask about how does this apply to me that 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.220 the first question should maybe be how does this 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:05.860 rebuke me How does this correct my thinking? 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:11.379 How does it challenge my attitude? But not in 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:16.240 a being told off and put down sort of way. Satan, 00:12:16.259 --> 00:12:18.320 of course, has no interest in Scripture being 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.379 useful and profitable for us. And one of his 00:12:21.379 --> 00:12:24.960 strategies is to turn teaching into speculation, 00:12:25.220 --> 00:12:28.740 get us sidetracked with speculation about myths 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:34.830 and genealogies and so on, for salvation through 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:38.250 faith in Jesus Christ. And the other strategy 00:12:38.250 --> 00:12:43.370 is to turn rebuke into a satanic accusation that 00:12:43.370 --> 00:12:48.070 condemns us and diminishes us as persons. So 00:12:48.070 --> 00:12:52.769 he twists it for us. And that's maybe an area 00:12:52.769 --> 00:12:56.590 where we need one another to hear and receive 00:12:56.590 --> 00:13:01.850 rebuke in the context of God -breathed grace. 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.799 then we have a divine rebuke rather than a satanic 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:12.899 accusation. Our temptation will be when Scripture 00:13:12.899 --> 00:13:16.000 points us to some sin in our life, some false 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.960 thinking, to either quickly move on, suppress 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:23.600 the thought, or to wallow into it and accuse 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.460 ourselves and allow Satan to get hold of the 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:29.919 Scripture and beat us up with it. And both, of 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:34.269 course, is wrong. God's rebuke is necessary for 00:13:34.269 --> 00:13:38.210 our salvation, not for our condemnation. It is 00:13:38.210 --> 00:13:42.169 part of the wisdom of teaching faith in Jesus 00:13:42.169 --> 00:13:45.750 Christ. And that's where sometimes confessing 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:49.330 sin to one another can be a real help. As evangelical 00:13:49.330 --> 00:13:52.509 Protestants, we know that we don't need to confess 00:13:52.509 --> 00:13:55.169 sin to one another and need a clergy person for 00:13:55.169 --> 00:13:58.669 that necessarily. We can do that by finding just 00:13:58.669 --> 00:14:03.470 whatever mature Christian believer. But we should 00:14:03.470 --> 00:14:07.509 remember that this can be a helpful way because 00:14:07.509 --> 00:14:10.750 it drags sin out of the darkness into the light. 00:14:11.070 --> 00:14:14.470 It makes it much harder to just move on. So it 00:14:14.470 --> 00:14:17.590 prevents the suppression by bringing it and expressing, 00:14:17.769 --> 00:14:19.669 vocalizing the sin in the presence of someone 00:14:19.669 --> 00:14:23.149 else. And if that someone else is a mature Christian, 00:14:23.370 --> 00:14:27.389 then the sin will be verbalized in the context 00:14:27.389 --> 00:14:31.250 of grace. That fellow Christian will remind us. 00:14:31.710 --> 00:14:34.470 of the forgiveness of sins, so that this sin 00:14:34.470 --> 00:14:37.889 is not for our condemnation and accusation, doesn't 00:14:37.889 --> 00:14:44.610 become satanic, but is a gospel rebuke. And sometimes 00:14:44.610 --> 00:14:47.909 we need that confession, not just for the sins 00:14:47.909 --> 00:14:50.370 that we all know are obvious to us, our sins, 00:14:50.570 --> 00:14:54.429 but sometimes, as Isaiah 64 puts us, all our 00:14:54.429 --> 00:14:57.169 worthy deeds, all our good things, we sometimes 00:14:57.169 --> 00:15:00.759 need to... bring to God as well in humility and 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.659 recognize we don't have really anything to bring, 00:15:05.820 --> 00:15:08.820 but by the grace of God, that's part of being 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:12.399 rebuked, not thinking we've got anything to offer 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:16.639 to God. So teaching and rebuke. Rebuke needs 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.159 naturally into correction, setting straight, 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.220 or maybe as some commentators have observed, 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.080 at least since the Middle Ages, There may be 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.820 a movement from belief, teaching truth, rebuking 00:15:31.820 --> 00:15:35.539 falsehood, to behavior, correcting false behavior, 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:39.059 training in good behavior. Whether we have this 00:15:39.059 --> 00:15:41.139 movement or not, there certainly is an overall 00:15:41.139 --> 00:15:46.220 movement of thinking to action, correcting the 00:15:46.220 --> 00:15:49.659 thinkings first, which will correct the action. 00:15:50.539 --> 00:15:53.159 And I think it is significant that those two 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:58.389 negative terms Reproof and correction, or rebuking 00:15:58.389 --> 00:16:02.049 and correcting in the NRV, are surrounded by 00:16:02.049 --> 00:16:05.370 the two positive terms, teaching and training. 00:16:07.809 --> 00:16:10.210 In fact, rebuking, correcting, and training are 00:16:10.210 --> 00:16:14.110 all wisdom terms, which reminds us that these 00:16:14.110 --> 00:16:16.950 good works, being equipped for every good work, 00:16:17.029 --> 00:16:21.909 is not about fulfilling the law. It's not about 00:16:21.909 --> 00:16:24.309 being obedient to the law. It's about wisdom. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.940 Our salvation takes shape in being liberated 00:16:29.940 --> 00:16:33.000 to be the kind of people that God has designed 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.220 us to be. We don't want to do good works in order 00:16:37.220 --> 00:16:41.960 to impress God or others. But because God has 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.879 liberated us by his grace from our sin, from 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.580 our self -centeredness, we can look out for others 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:51.360 and do them good. Because God has showered so 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:55.840 many gifts on us and is so generous to us. hold 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.580 on tightly to what we have, but can give to others. 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:03.360 So it's the gospel that liberates us to good 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.180 work, that makes us thoroughly equipped, or as 00:17:07.180 --> 00:17:11.259 the ESV has it, that the man of God, everyone 00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:15.720 who belongs to God, may be complete. Think again 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.799 of Adam. The complete human being is the one 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.660 that's fully equipped for every good work by 00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:30.299 the gospel. by the grace of God. Now, this is 00:17:30.299 --> 00:17:34.000 not an accidental sequence, but quite deliberate. 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:38.240 We also see in 2 Timothy 4 .2 where Timothy is 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.799 told to preach, or actually it's a more general 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.519 term, proclaim. So don't let this hold you back 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.220 in terms of thinking who's allowed to preach 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:48.740 when it's proclaiming, which we are all called 00:17:48.740 --> 00:17:53.200 to do in some contexts. Proclaim the word. Correct, 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:57.319 rebuke, and encourage, or more literally, rebuke, 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.000 correct, and encourage, because the word order 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.839 is the same as here. The NIV slightly messes 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.920 it up, unfortunately. So first, the correcting 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.720 and rebuking, but the aim of that is the encouragement 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:17.339 and encourage. With great patience, every patience, 00:18:17.339 --> 00:18:20.460 and careful instruction is the teaching word 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:22.690 again. which now has the final word. It's the 00:18:22.690 --> 00:18:25.509 overarching word. What does teaching look like? 00:18:25.529 --> 00:18:28.190 What does it look like for us to teach one another? 00:18:28.329 --> 00:18:30.630 Not just to sit in a classroom and receive something 00:18:30.630 --> 00:18:33.670 from the lecturer or receive something from reading, 00:18:33.769 --> 00:18:36.230 but what does it mean for us to minister Scripture 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:40.529 in ways that teach one another? It means to rebuke, 00:18:40.529 --> 00:18:43.869 correct, and encourage training in righteousness. 00:18:45.609 --> 00:18:49.079 This is how we can help. And support one another. 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.119 This is how we live the unity of the body of 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.859 Christ. The holiness of the body of Christ. This 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:58.160 is how we grow into greater catholicity. As we 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.539 hear other voices rebuking us. Seeing our blind 00:19:01.539 --> 00:19:04.140 spots that we can't see because of our tradition. 00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:07.200 And the way our corner of the Christian world 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.500 has shaped us in particular ways. And this is 00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:14.180 how we remain firmly rooted and grounded on the 00:19:14.180 --> 00:19:18.240 apostolic foundations. relate for us in the Scriptures. 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:19.619 Amen.