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A message from
the President Prof. Kathleen James |
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| Qualified To Teach Others |
| Competent, knowledgeable
and qualified to teach others also’(2
Tim.2:2). |
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Beside the attentiveness to purpose,
the willingness to endure, gentleness
and patience in dealing with opposition
as some of the necessities for becoming
a faithful witness of Jesus Christ, the
minister must also be qualified to teach
'others' also. |
| By ‘others’ I speak precisely of
those of the higher echelon of the
‘educational circle’ at this point.
Too long has the minister just called
and prepared his sermon for the
oppressed, the down trodden, the
brokenhearted, the less fortunate, the
poor, the sick, the suffering, and the
outcasts, and mostly these come and are
saved as though they are the only ones
to be saved, but leave out the call to
the philosophers, the stoics, the
atheists, the agnostics, and the special
other ‘ists’ to come that they too might
be convinced of their sin and be saved. |
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| Is it that they are
afraid to confront the learned? Are
ministers not commanded to study to show
themselves approved and to have the
ability to skillfully sculpt the Word of
God? (2 Tim.2:15). |
| Jesus at age twelve was an apologist
and was able to conference with the
lawyers and doctors of learning of his
day (Lk 2: 46-47). Are ministers not
more than twelve? |
| Why is it incumbent upon the
minister to be qualified? - Because the
whole climate of education has changed
and Daniel 12:4 has unfolded before our
very eyes; ‘knowledge has increased’.
Within our own country placements for
formal education have increased from
15000 in 2001 to approximately 47000
places in 2007. Knowledge has increased.
This is the decade of literacy
(2003-2012). The minister now has a new
type of listeners to whom he must
explain how the invisible attributes,
eternal power and divine nature of God
are clearly seen and understood by the
things He has made (Rom.1:20). |
| He must now be able to reveal the
fingerprint of God through science,
language, mathematics and every other
discipline that is thrown at him and
bring the learned enquirer into account
to God. The apostle Paul did it on the
Areopagus when he preached his
‘philosophical sermon’, under the
anointing of the Spirit, which
challenged the objections of the
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers to the
gospel (Acts 17:16-34). Paul argued
about the nature of God and the way God
relates to human beings, especially
through Jesus Christ. ‘Dionysius the
Areopagite’ was among those who joined
Paul and believed in Christ (Acts17:34). |
| I challenge students / prospective
students today to become as competent,
knowledgeable, and qualified as can be
to be able to successfully teach the
educated ‘others’ also, under the
anointing of the Holy Spirit, and not
leave them undone. |
| May the Lord bless you as you rise
to the challenge of the decade and
beyond! |
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Prof.
Kathleen James
PhD
Biblical Studies |
Tel: (868) 675-4709
E-mail:
ccbi@tstt.net.tt |
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