Spiritual Gift: Teaching

WHAT IS The Gift of TEACHING?

The gift of teaching is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to communicate information relevant to the health and ministry of the Body and its members in such a way that others will learn.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES FOR this Gift

Tap each verse to read it. Unless otherwise noted, all scriptures are in the English Standard Version.

ACTS 20:20-21

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, ²¹testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

ACTS 18:24-28

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. ²⁵He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. ²⁶He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. ²⁷And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, ²⁸for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

ROMANS 12:7

if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

1 CORINTHIANS 12:28

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

EPHESIANS 4:11-14 [NASB]

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, ¹²for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; ¹³until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. ¹⁴As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming...

IN THE GREEK

DIDASKALOS; DIDASKO

Strong's Number: 1320; 1321
Instruction, doctrine, learning, teaching. Occurs 21 times in the New Testament, of which 15 are found in the pastoral epistles.

SUGGESTED POTENTIAL STRENGTHS & CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS GIFT

Presents truth in a logical, systematic way.
Loves to validate truth by intensive research.
Prefers teaching believers to engaging in evangelism.
Feels this gift is foundational to the operation of other gifts.
Earnestly desires to explain biblical principles to others.
Is concerned to help others learn what the Bible teaches about life.
Gets excited about acquiring knowledge out of God’s Word.
Tendency to draw illustrations and applications from biblical sources rather than non-biblical ones (Acts 17:2-3; 18:28).