What Are Church Traditions?

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In his letters, Paul speaks not only of teachings he delivered to the churches, but also of traditions he passed on. What kind of traditions does he have in mind?

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0:00.0	Happy Friday, everyone.
0:06.6	Well, do we need church traditions and what are church traditions?
0:13.3	Questions we must answer, and they come in today from a listener named Jerome, who lives
0:17.2	in Singapore.
0:18.2	Hello, Pastor John.
0:19.5	What specifically does Paul mean by traditions in 2nd Thessalonians 215?
0:24.1	Does Paul have in mind the apostolic traditions or broader historic church traditions or some
0:29.4	other type of tradition?
0:31.1	What would you say to Jerome?
0:33.8	Well, this is good.
0:34.8	One of the reasons that I'm glad this question is being asked is because it gives us a chance
0:42.4	to step back and I think address an issue that we haven't really addressed, at least in
0:47.7	a focused way, namely what is tradition or how should we think about traditions as Christians?
0:57.8	And a good place to start is, yes, in 2nd Thessalonians 215 and in Paul and the apostles,
1:05.8	but also in Jesus.
1:07.2	So we'll get there.
1:08.8	Let me just start with the word itself.
1:12.2	Get a definition clear in front of us.
1:15.2	Tra-dition.
1:16.2	It's got two halves.
1:17.9	Tra-across or a long and addition, the word, the Latin word, forgive.
1:24.9	The two halves together then would mean to give a cross or to give a long from one generation
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