Titus 3:8-9 NET This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty. So if I’m reading this right, good deeds win out over knowledge of a bunch of facts? And am I also reading here that quarrels and fights about rules are useless and empty? As I type this, 3 of my 4 sons are marching around the dinner table singing “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.” They don’t know the difference between the Decapolis or Smyrna. They can’t tell you what year Jeremiah hid the Ark of the covenant in Ethiopia. They would think that Calvinists and Armenians were other tribes in...

