Pastors As Teachers: The Teaching Ministry of the Church and Its Role in the Strengthening of Church Today

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Calvin commenting on 1 Timothy 3:15 wrote: ‘The reason why the church is called the pillar of truth is, that she defends and spreads it by her agency. The office of administering doctrine, which God hath placed in her hands, is the only instrument of preserving the truth, that it may not perish from the remembrance of men.’ Doctrine needs particular attention in the church and teaching is the means by which the truth of God’s Word is to be propagated and preserved in this age. The church must not relinquish her ‘office of administering doctrine’ nor lose her place as the pillar and ground of truth in this world. Inroads have been made to weaken the church through the areas that the church members are ignorant of what the Word of God teaches.