{"id":1637,"date":"2010-03-19T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/03\/19\/peddling-the-word\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T01:26:10","slug":"peddling-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2010\/03\/19\/peddling-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"peddling the word"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a message Wednesday night, the preacher referred to this passage:<\/p>\n

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NAU  2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cPeddling the word\u201d \u2013 the KJV puts it \u2018corrupt the word\u2019, but the idea is more that of dishonest peddlers who try to swindle their customers.<\/p>\n

The NET Bible notes explain the word this way:<\/p>\n

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The participle \u2026 refers to those engaged in retail business, but with the negative connotations of deceptiveness and greed – "to peddle for profit," "to huckster"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We\u2019ve all met with fellows like this before, haven\u2019t we? (If you haven\u2019t yet, you will.)<\/p>\n

Our preacher last night illustrated this kind of peddler this way: He\u2019s like a man selling apples. He has some good ones, some so-so ones, and some \u2018past due\u2019. How does he display his wares? Does he put the best ones on the bottom of his basket, the so-so ones next and the \u2018past due\u2019 ones on the top?<\/p>\n

No! Of course not. The best are put on top and the \u2018past due\u2019 ones are hidden on the inside.<\/p>\n

Then came this application, not quoted exactly verbatim, but close:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst thing about attracting people to church with rock music and then preaching Christ is the place it puts Christ in the basket<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think about it.<\/p>\n

\"don_sig2\" <\/p>\n

HT: Jeff Musgrave<\/a>, our preacher of the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a message Wednesday night, the preacher referred to this passage: NAU  2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. \u201cPeddling the word\u201d \u2013 the KJV puts it \u2018corrupt the word\u2019, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[71,60,42,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-qp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}