Paul then exhorts Timothy to have nothing to do with other social imaginaries (“profane myths and old wives’ tales,” 1 Tim 4:7a NRSV) and instead “train yourself for godliness” (1 Tim 4:7b). The Greek for “train” is gymnazō. There you have it: the church is to be a gym for training in godliness. Disciples need a diet of Scripture and doctrine in order to get the nourishment necessary for training. And training is necessary “because orthodoxy (believing correctly) turns hypocritical apart from orthopraxy