Teaching: How does this office works? Other offices makes sweeping statements like: You need to have faith; you need to pray. The teacher comes in & say: How do you have faith? How do you strengthen it? How do you pray? How do you cultivate the fruit of the Spirit? Teaching ministry teaches you HOW to do it. How to walk the Christian journey step by step. Sometimes we teach you WHY we do it. Teaching is more PRACTICAL oriented than THEORY based. It is written: Teachers will incur STRICTER judgement. They are expected to live the Word, pray the Word, speak the Word, obey the Word in total. Heaven Rules.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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