The Law of Equipping

Pages 341-379

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 The essence of the Law of
Equipping is these 3 words:
“Equip for service”
The teacher should train
students for a life of service
and edification

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 The primary issues in this
chapter are:
1. What is the biblical job
description for a Christian
teacher?
2. Is the average teacher
fulfilling those
responsibilities or rebelling
against them?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Equipping Mindset
Someday you will stand before
God and have to give an
account to him about what you
have done with your life.
God will be concerned about
what he wanted you to do -
not what you did!
Are you aiming at the right
target - is covering the content
the right target or a trap?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Eph 4:11-12 So
Christ himself gave
What is the job
the apostles, the
description
prophets, the for a
Christian
evangelists, the
teacher?
pastors and teachers,
to equip his people
What Bible
for works of service,
sopassage do you
that the body of
think may
Christ sums be it up?
built
up.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 Eph 4:11-12 So
Christ himself gave
the apostles, the
prophets, the
evangelists, the
pastors and teachers,
to equip his people
for works of service,
so that the body of
Christ may be built
up.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 Principle 1: the primary purpose of
teachers is to equip
Equip not merely to explain - yet
explaining is what most classes
do.
You can have information,
education and entertainment
without ever being equipped to
do anything.
Katartizo = To equip means to
prepare, make ready, complete or
restore (for ministry and service)
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 Principle 2: the primary audience
of teachers is Christians

...for equipping the

saints
The church are busy
watching our pastors
and teachers preach
evangelistically whilst
they do not prepare
them to do the job.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Principle 3: the primary result of
equipping is Christians doing the work of
ministry and edifying the Body of Christ

The result of the teaching

is - Eph 4:16 - From him
the whole body, joined and
held together by every
supporting ligament,
grows and builds itself up
in love, as each part does
its work.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 God’s job description for all teachers

The issues that will be on

our final exam will
include:
1. The nature of the work
our students are involved
in - the ministry they are
doing.
2. The % of our class
who are ministering -
“every part”

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 3. The degree to which our
students are working at their
capacity - its work.
4. The quality and quantity of the
work done by our students - are
they effective?
5. The % growth in our class -
growth in the Body is a result of
equipping
6. Constant, normal, mutual
ministry between class members -
mutual edification, body ministry

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Equipping Model

Is based upon this text

Eph 4:11-16 So Christ himself gave the
apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the
pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people
for works of service, so that the body of Christ
may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in
the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of
God and become mature, attaining to the
whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed
back and forth by the waves, and blown here
and there by every wind of teaching and by
the cunning and craftiness of people in their
deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the
truth in love, we will grow to become in every
respect the mature body of him who is the
head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole
body, joined and held together by every
supporting ligament, grows and builds itself
up in love, as each part does its work.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed
back and forth by the waves, and blown here
Analyse the text -
and there by every wind of teaching and by
what conclusions,
the cunning and craftiness of people in their
deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the
about teachers and
truth in love, we will grow to become in every
respect the mature body of him who is the
teaching, can you
head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole
body, joined and held together by every
draw?
supporting ligament, grows and builds itself
up in love, as each part does its work.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Work of Ministry

Speaker
Saints World
Equip Evangelise

Edification of Body

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 The essence of the Law of
Equipping is these 3 words:
“Equip for service”
The teacher should train
students for a life of service
and edification

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Equipping Maxims

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Do you tickle
Teacher performance review:
peoples
Reflect on the teacherears?
job
description we looked at earlier -
Isthe
are you, everyone
teacher, achieving
equipped in your
that?
Do you need a revolution to
church?
change from being happy with
delivering content, asking a few
Is everyone
questions, having a good
involved
discussion, doin ministry
students like the
class to fulfilling Eph 4:11-16?
in your church?
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 Maxim 1: equipping is the
responsibility of the teacher
God equips for service
- we speak for
understanding.
Compare 2 Tim
3:16-17 and Eph
4:11-16 and you will
find that they show that
the Bible and the
teacher are both: what
are the similarities?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 1: equipping is the
responsibility of the teacher
God equips for service
- we speak for
By the way this
understanding.
cartoon
Compare has no
2 Tim
relevance
3:16-17 at all to
and Eph
4:11-16
the and you will
teaching
find that theyon
material show
thisthat
the Bible and the
page - I just liked it
teacher are both: what
are the similarities?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 1: equipping is the
responsibility of the teacher
God equips for service
- we speak for
By the way this
understanding.
cartoon
Compare has no
2 Tim
relevance
3:16-17 at all to
and Eph
4:11-16
the and you will
teaching
find that theyon
material show
thisthat
the Bible and the
page - I just liked it
teacher are both: what
are the similarities?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 A gift of God
For the Christian community
For the purpose of edification and
equipping
Result in good works
Did Jesus really say, “If you love
me you will know my
commandments”?
“Those who have been called to
equip..frequently misuse the Bible
making it a book to be studied
rather than a book to be practiced”
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 Maxim 2: equipping occurs best when
the teacher assumes the biblical role

God has revealed his final

exam for us - and it
involves not answers but
actions, fruit not facts,
disciples not data.
“Content is always the
servant of conduct”

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 We need to become coaches
helping the team to play
better and working on
improving each member.
Coaches only use information
to help the team play better.
Some teachers act like the
star payer not the coach.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 3: equipping is best evaluated
by what the student does after class

Most people do not care

about practice - they want
to see the match.
Christians spend all their
time at practice and pay
no attention to the real
“game”.
Real ministry is not at the
church but in the arena of
normal day to day life.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
 What questions should we ask to test the ministry
done by students?
1. Evangelism: What % of students shared the
gospel with someone this week - and how many
have led someone to the Lord in the last year?
2. Discipleship: What % of students are involved in
a regular discipling class - maturing, accountability,
growing others?
3. Spiritual vitality: What % of the students have a
regular quiet time, lead family devotions, tithe, have
a thriving spiritual life?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 4: equipping should impact
both character and conduct
Equip not only to do
ministry but to be a
minister. Conduct is a
result of character - we are
sons of God and that
shows in how we walk.
Elders are validated by
their character - 1 Tim,
Titus 1

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 The essence of the Law of
Equipping is these 3 words:
“Equip for service”
The teacher should train
students for a life of service
and edification

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 5: equipping should focus more
intensely on the most committed

Equippers carefully select the

people they work with.
Look at the example of Jesus.
You have limited resources -
steward them wisely.
Test the people you work with
- “meet me at 0530 with these
three verses memorised”

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 6: equipping requires knowledge,
skill and long term commitment

The real test for church

or ministry
Equipping comes
is one of thewhen
the ‘minister’
hardest things you cannot
will everdo
do -ititall - have
is one people
of the most
strategic
caught the investments you
vision, ethos,
will values
ever make - thatother
- then is why
sopeople
few people do it.
become your
hands, feet and mouth

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Beware of looking for the instant.
Year 1: Plant the seed. Water and
fertilise.
Year 2: water and fertilise.
Year 3: water and fertilise.
Year 4: water and fertilise.
Year 5: water and fertilise - within 90
days it grows 90 feet high.
Bamboo is the fastest growing woody
plant in the world. It can grow over
1m/day.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 Maxim 7: the ultimate goal of
equipping is independent equippers

Independent equippers have

mastered a ministry skill and are
using it.
You are to train people who will
become trainers of others, who
train others, who...
Are you committed to teaching
or to reproduction?

Tuesday 16 November 2010

 The essence of the Law of
Equipping is these 3 words:
“Equip for service”
The teacher should train
students for a life of service
and edification

Tuesday 16 November 2010