Telephone

"Telephone” is one of the oldest children’s games—when a group of people line up and try and pass a message along by whispering in each other’s ears, waiting to see if the message that was originally communicated ends up reaching the end of the line unchanged. Paul’s key command in 1 Timothy 1:14 is to “guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you”. It’s a little bit like playing telephone—trying to maintain the original message that was given to you and passing it on, intact, to the pers...