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

witnesses to Him. S. D. Gordon* put it well when he said, “We have the Bible bound in morocco, bound in all kinds of beautiful leather; what we need is the Bible bound in shoe leather.” . . . It is those who have received the Holy Spirit who understand the will of God and “grow up into Him in all things.” When the Scriptures are made quick and powerful by the Holy Spirit, they fit every need of life. The only interpreter of the Scriptures is the Holy Spirit, and when we have received the Holy Spirit we learn the first golden lesson of spiritual life, which is that God reveals His will according to the state of our character (cf. Psalm 18.25-26).

~ Oswald Chambers. Biblical Ethics . (electronic ed.). Hants, UK: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1996.

A. The Holy Spirit gives the gift of teaching to select members of Christ’s body .

1. 1 Cor. 12.28-29

2. Eph. 4.11-12

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3. 1 Pet. 4.10-11

4. Implications

a. God expects all men to teach, but he supplies select individuals with the gift of teaching.

b. The gift of teaching is key to the teaching ministry.

c. The Holy Spirit empowers those with the gift to use it for the upbuilding of the body.