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yeshuaslavejeff

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Hey, I believe in all this waiting I am being called to be a teaching pastor or theologian. Want I do to affirm this calling?
I also have a gift of teaching. What I did over thirty years ago was to start writing. I developed study guides for most of the New Testament and developed a website http://www.bcbsr.com along with a yahoogroup email list - now about 6000 members - to send out daily clips from the study guides. I also wrote a book called "Bible Rap" available on Amazon.

These days you can also do a blog and use other aspects of social media to teach.
 
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Hey, I believe in all this waiting I am being called to be a teaching pastor or theologian. Want I do to affirm this calling?


Normally we see gifted men toward teaching and pastoring and evangelization, to be commended by the local assembly which has been blessed by the help therein. After much encouragement and much prayer, one might do some volunteer work, and in time be encouraged and recommended by elders in the local assembly and elsewhere, as much suited to that important work.
 
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