Welcome to the Healthy Teaching website! The phrase healthy teaching is based on Paul’s writings towards the end of his ministry, at a time when the churches were in a trend of degradation, and many churches had turned away from him. During such a time, the divine Word, and in particular, the healthy teaching, was Paul’s antidote to deal with the apostasy and disorder in the church.
The healthy teaching is the content of God’s New Testament economy. Healthy implies two elements. On the positive side, there is the nourishing element (1 Tim. 4:6), which ministers life and is full of spiritual supply. On the negative side, there is a germ-killing element, which operates against spiritual problems and diseases. Our burden with our writings in this website is to present such a word, which would both nourish and inoculate for the spiritual health of the saints and churches.
Paul used the term healthy to describe the word six times in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (1 Tim. 1:10; 6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13; 4:3; Titus 1:9; 2:1). In these epistles, Paul also mentions several items that were against the healthy word. These include myths and unending genealogies (1 Tim. 1:4), vain talk (v. 6), and gossip (4:7). In 1 Timothy 6:4-5, Paul mentions “questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions, perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.”
These words are increasingly relevant to the churches in the Philippines in recent years, as myths, questionings, contentions, and even slanders and evil suspicions have arisen among us. We hope that through our writings based on the Word and the ministry, we will all be saved from these myths and recovered to the healthy teaching of God’s economy. We also aim to present and clarify points of truth and practice, so that we would be saved from reasonings, and our thoughts would be taken captive unto the obedience of Christ (2 Cor. 10:5).
Finally, we pray that the saints would not be discouraged by the challenges of the present time. Turmoils have been present throughout church history, even during Paul’s time. The turmoil in Acts 21 led to Paul’s imprisonment and the termination of his traveling ministry. However, during his imprisonment, his writing ministry became higher, deeper, and richer; and the epistles he wrote from prison have become a great blessing to all the churches throughout the centuries. (The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation, Chapter 2)
While we do not agree with the enemy’s instigation and work, turmoils also bring about a purification for the building up. Let us not lose heart. Rather, let us be diligent to keep the oneness and hold to the healthy teaching for the building up of the Body of Christ.
“All these turmoils are for the building up of the church.” (The Experience and Growth in Life, Chapter 27)
Note: The verses quoted from The Holy Bible Recovery Version and all the excerpts quoting Watchman Nee and Witness Lee are from publications copyrighted by Living Stream Ministry and are used by permission.