Section 12: TEACHING

Teaching focus 1 for fruitful disciple making

Everyone in your church must learn the Word of God and be discipled.

• There are many ways of organizing and developing teaching and discipling.
• Find those with the gift of teaching and put them to work.
• If teachers are weak on application, have them name helpers to meet regularly with those they teach, to disciple them.
• Discipling of new believers must begin with obeying the basic commands of Jesus.
• Pray with new disciples and help them get to work in ministry.

Find in Psalm 119 several purposes of following God's Word.

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• Teaching and Doing the Word of God.

Verify who are gifted teachers.

• The gifted teachers are not necessarily those who have a youthful appearance or strong opinions about doctrine.
• If you do not know all your members well enough to identify the teachers, then you can ask others to identify them for you.
• It can be helpful to prepare a small form on which you list a few biblical characteristics of teachers with a scale beside each item. People can then tick on the scales their assessment of individuals who might be teachers. (Illiterate persons can do this for you verbally.).
• Teachers are those who: