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

provides and prepares the preacher to deliver the message that s/he is to preach through his supply and gifting, and anoints and inspires the preacher throughout the preaching event. The Holy Spirit convicts the audience of the truth, and confirms the spoken word with signs and wonders of its veracity. • When the Holy Spirit is allowed to work and is obeyed throughout the preaching event, he produces a deep conviction of sin, righteousness, and judgment before the Lord, strongly converts the lost to Christ through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, and solidly incorporates the new believer into the body of Christ. In the Bible [God] speaks (a) directly and subjectively, through Israel’s recollection of his words (Deut. 6.6–9), and through the preaching of the gospel, which is the word of God (Acts 4.31; 1 Thess. 2.13; 1 Pet. 1.23), and (b) directly and objectively, through the Hebrew Scriptures, which continue to be the word of God (Matt. 5.17–18; 1 Cor. 10.11; 2 Tim. 3.16; 2 Pet. 1.20–21), through the apostolic letters (2 Pet. 3.16), and through the written Gospels and the other NT books. Today he speaks through the Christian Scriptures as a whole. God caused his word to be written down. He writes his commandments on tablets of stone. He commands Moses to write down his words (Exod. 34.27) and an account of his deeds (Exod. 17.14), so that coming generations would remember them, and so that God’s people would know the basis and content of his covenant with them. ~ E. J. Schnabel. “Scripture.” The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology . T. D. Alexander, ed. (electronic ed.). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001. God Continues to Speak through Preaching

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I. What Kind of Vessel (Preacher) Does the Holy Spirit Desire to Use?

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A. Obedience to the call of God to preach

1. Demonstrates a willingness to go, Isa. 6.8