Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Purpose of Teaching

Why Do We Teach?

We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ. Colossians 1:28-29

It should be the goal of every preacher/teacher/discipler to teach those they are responsible for with wisdom and grace in order to help their charge(s) grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If what you teach is not reproducible, then what does it serve? (2 Tim. 2:2)
If it does not result in a changed or changing life, what good is it?

To just grab a handful of seed without knowing where it comes from or where it is to go, is, at best, an exercise in futility. It will not necessarily do the hearers any good.

Let us, as teachers, make it our ambition to present every person fully mature, ie, perfect, in the Lord Jesus.

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