From around the beginning of 2014, in Sydney we have seen some considerable energy invested in proving and disproving a particular view of the word ‘teaching’ (greek verb didaskô) in Paul’s well known prohibition in 1 Timothy 2.
After reviewing the definitions being offered for the word we translate ‘teach’ in 1 Tim 2:12 it is clear that it means ‘the authoritative, formal, ongoing instruction of God’s people, in God’s truth, from God’s word’.