New Testament teachers are gifted spiritual leaders alongside apostles and prophets who had a special God-given gift for clarity, expound and proclaiming God’s Word with effectiveness and power to build up the body of Christ.
The unique task for teachers is to guard the gospel entrusted to them with the Holy Spirit’s help. They are faithfully to point the church to Biblical revelation and the original message of Christ and the apostles and help equip the saints for “the work of the ministry.
The principal purpose of the Bible teaching is to preserve truth and produce holiness in God’s people by leading Christ’s body into an uncompromising commitment to the godly lifestyle outlined in God’s Word. Scripture states that the goal of Christian instruction is “clarity of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned” in First Timothy chapter one verse five. The evidence of Christian learning is not just in what one knows but how one lives as the manifestation of love, purity, faith, and godliness.
Teachers are essential to God’s purpose for the church. The church that rejects or refuses to hear those teachers and theologians who remain faithful to Scriptural revelation will stop being concerned about the genuineness of the Biblical message and the correct interpretation of the original teaching of Christ and the apostles. The church with these teachers and theologians will remain silent and will not continue steadfast in the truth. New winds of doctrine people will accept, and religious experiences and human ideas, rather than revealed truth, will be the ultimate guide to the church’s doctrine, standards, and practices.
On the other hand, the church that listens to godly teachers and theologians will have its teachings and practices measured by the testimony of the gospel, its false ideas exposed and the purity of Christ’s original message handed down to its children. God’s inspired Word will become the test for all teaching. The Spirit’s inspired Word is truth and authority that stands over the other churches and institutions.