The Equipping Ministry, Student Workbook, SW15

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T H E E Q U I P P I N G M I N I S T R Y

5. Teaching stirs the passions of hungry disciples as they better understand what God is doing in the world, and what Christ demands, Acts 20.28-32.

III. The Development of the Teaching Ministry

Jesus’ Teaching Diverse and Oriented to Life

A. Jesus taught the multitudes and his own disciples.

The teaching of Jesus is not easily set out in systematic form; it was not delivered as an ordered treatise, but in a wide variety of real-life situations and encounters. ~ Ibid. p. 571.

1. Matt. 4.23

2. Matt. 11.1

3. Matt. 22.16

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4. Matt. 23.8

5. Mark 4.1

6. John 3.2

7. Acts 1.1

B. The apostles taught the early believers on all issues related to Jesus as the Messiah, and his headship over the Messianic community (i.e., the Church).

1. Col. 1.28