PRAISE D LORD! MY DEAR SOULS SHALLOM! In the NT Jesus is presented as the oral teacher par excellence (John 3:2; 13:13). In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus is presented as a teacher and large blocks of his teachings are spaced throughout the Gospel (chaps. 5-7, 10, 13, 18, 24-25). Little is said about how Christianity was taught in the early church. In Acts Paul is pictured as going to the synagogues to preach about Jesus and then withdrawing into the homes of believers to continue his ministry (Acts 18:4-7; 19:8-9). The Pauline and post- Pauline Letters speak of an office of teacher (1 Cor. 12:28-29; Eph. 4:11) but do not say how it was carried out. Emphasis is also put on the content of the message, which according to Paul must be the gospel (Gal. 1:6-9). Faithful teaching of the message is emphasized more and more in the later books of the NT, such as in the Pastoral Letters (1 Tim. 4:6, 11, 16; 6:2, 3).
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:35:07 +0000
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