(answering what he finds unhelpful in for message preparation):
Focusing too much on something in the text that is an issue of hairsplitting debate among theologians. You are assuming that people care as much about the debate as you do. Somebody may be sitting there thinking, "Dude, I'm a plumber. I didn't know that was a debate, and I didn't know that it needed to be resolved. I'm just trying to figure out life with God and you spent sixteen minutes letting me know that you understood the origins of this particular Greek word." Some things just aren't helpful.
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Saw this article too. I think that as much as we should be very responsible with the text, we should thoughtful of the Gospel story as a whole and leave the listener with enough to challenge but too much to get them confused.
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