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terms, a color commentator on the game of the Lord, one explaining the working of God in the world, and our response to it). 3. Lay out some of the major distinctives of the teaching ministry, including its focus on building up disciples in Jesus Christ to maturity, and fulfilling the teaching clause of the Great Commission, to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, and to protect growing disciples from the threat of heresy, schism, dead orthodoxy, and spiritual immaturity. 4. Explain some of the major features of the teaching ministry in Jesus’ clear and compelling teaching of the Kingdom of God, and the apostles’ focus on the teaching ministry in the Messianic community, the Church, and thus how teaching played a critical role in credentialing and empowering leaders, defending the apostolic faith, and offering an apology for the Christian hope. 5. Highlight some of the central difficulties associated with the teaching ministry, including the tendency to follow modern trends rather than the historic Christian faith, over- dependence on highly analytical and technical approaches to biblical truth, undue focus on methods and gimmicks rather than the heart of the Christian message, and the tendency to substitute academic performance rather than dependence on the anointing of the Holy Spirit. 6. Show how that in urban ministry there is a need for us to recover the ministry of teaching (i.e., the ministry of equipping the saints for the work of the ministry) in our urban churches in order to build the Kingdom in our most vulnerable and neglected urban communities. 7. Demonstrate with use of the Scriptures the ingredients of a legitimate call to the teaching ministry, including an under- standing of the teaching ministry as a call to equip the saints for the work of the ministry . Show that teaching is not a matter of scholarship alone, but spiritual gifting and enable- ment from Christ – the ability to lead others to discover the truth through dialogue and study, and above all else, the anointing and enablement of the Holy Spirit in the one teaching and those who are being taught. 8. Outline the way in which the “principle of character” (i.e., who a teacher is in his or her character will sooner or later impact what they as a teacher say and do) impacts the fruitfulness of the teacher.

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module