In another thread I responded with the reality of life in a liturgical church. One benefit, I said, was that in a liturgical church, you get exposed to ALL of the Bible.

The standing committee of our diocese today began with a Bible study prepared and led by my husband, based on the Epistle due for this coming Sunday. Here is the material that introduces the passage due for Sunday, in the New English Bible translation, from the letter to Timothy.

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THIS IS WHAT you are to teach and preach. If any one is teaching otherwise, and will not give his mind to wholesome precepts-- I mean those of our Lord Jesus Christ-- and to good religious teaching, I call him a pompous ignoramus. He is morbidly keen on mere verbal questions and quibbles, which give rise to jealousy, quarrelling, slander, base suspicions, and endless wrangles: all typical of men who have let their reasoning powers become atrophied and have lost grip of the truth. They think religion should yield dividends; and of course religion does yield high dividends, but only to the man whose resources are within him.

We brought nothing into the world; for that matter we cannot take anything with us when we leave, but if we have food and covering we may rest content. Those who want to be rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and perdition. The love of money is the root of all evil things, and there are some who in reaching for it have wandered from the faith and spiked themselves on many thorny griefs.

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I didn't start this thread, but where I can present things I know from my own experience, that shed light on threads others start, I am going to. There is too much untruth circulated here, IMO, to leave standing on its own.

~Susan