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“Satisfied About You”

A Call for Teachers to Bless

the Church

(and Be Blessed)

“I am always trying to discipline myself and my schedule to be able

to pray more. I don't particularly enjoy prayer itself, but I sure do

enjoy the blessings that God gives when I do pray. It is so easy to let

ministry and life use up my time and to have my prayer time slip back to

smaller amounts of time. I pray a lot, not because I am disciplined or

godly, but because I truly believe that much prayer does result in

much blessing."

Dee Duke

“Satisfied About You”

A Call for Teachers to Bless

the Church

(and Be Blessed)

Introduction: Isn't Teaching Only for Professionals?

Special Office and Gift

Titus 1:9

[An elder] must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so

that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and

also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to

equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body

of Christ

Introduction: Isn't Teaching Only for Professionals?

Special Office and Gift Occupation for Everyone

Matthew 28:19-20

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the

end of the age.

Introduction: Isn't Teaching Only for Professionals?

Special Office and Gift Occupation for Everyone Various Teaching Ministries

Romans 15:14

I myself [Paul] am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you

yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able

to instruct one another.

Teachers Are Not Perfect and Neither is the Church

Objection: “I can’t teach. I’m not perfect.”

Reasons for Taking Up Teaching

1

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any

longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or

hindrance in the way of a brother.

Teachers Are Not Perfect and Neither is the Church

Objection: “I can’t teach. I’m not perfect.”

Reasons for Taking Up Teaching

1

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and

spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Teachers Share God's Gifts (They Don't Have to Make Things Up)

Objection: “I can’t teach. I have nothing to say.”

Reasons for Taking Up Teaching

2

Romans 1:16-17

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew

first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from

faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 15:14

I myself [Paul] am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you

yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able

to instruct one another.

2 Timothy 2:24-26

And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone,

able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with

gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a

knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from

the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Teachers Grow as They Give

Objection: “I can’t teach. I want to keep on being a student.”

Reasons for Taking Up Teaching

3

2 Timothy 2:24-26

And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone,

able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with

gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a

knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from

the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Teachers Trust God to Act (They Don't Have to Make Things Happen)

Objection: “I can’t teach. People won’t respond.”

Reasons for Taking Up Teaching

4

“As I talk, the Holy Spirit joins the bones, imparts the

insight. And when it happens, I can see it on my hearers’ faces. Their eyes

open; their minds are animated. Their lives are

changed.”

Howard Hendricks