The B I B L E Why I Teach the Bible Whenever I can, To Whoever I can BtP 5.5.2024

Grayville So Far…

Ministry in the “New” Millennium.

The JOB and tasks...

Reflection on the Mandate

Ezra 7:10 ESV

10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Acts 6:4 ESV

4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Ephesians 4:11–12 ESV

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 4:1–4 ESV

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Titus 2:1 ESV

1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

Many Opportunities

Within the local Congregation

Writing

External

Camp

Lessons

Consultations

Seminars

Many Voices

Distractions

Exaggeration.

Novelty.

Distortions

The “peril” of pentecostalism.

Focus on immediacy and the present at the expense of history, precedent, and consequences.

Focus on a “gifted” leader rather than the Lord.

Focus on individually tailored revelation rather than scripture.

Tribalism

Reductionism

Deception

Revived Heresies.

Bold indiscretion