Teachers of the Law – A Kingdom Catechism

Teachers of the Law

A Kingdom Catechism

All believers are responsible to teach God’s Law.

Q 37: Whose duty is it to teach the Law of God?

A 37: The responsibility for teaching the Law of God falls to parents, pastors, and all believers. (Deut. 6:4-9; Ps. 78:1-8; Col. 3:16; Heb. 10:24)

We may envision here a hierarchy of teaching responsibility. God has been pleased to set “offices” of instruction in His Church for the purpose of teaching the Word and equipping the saints (Eph. 4:11, 12). Such teachers have a special calling from God which must be confirmed by the larger body of believers and of their fellow teachers. With these pastors and elders other church members, who possess the gift of teaching, are enlisted to help with this important work. In Christian homes parents instruct their children in order to nurture them in the Lord. And all believers have a duty to teach and encourage one another in the Word which effects their sanctification. Thus, all believers must be versed in the Law of God, as well as in all the Word of the Lord, in order to fulfill their unique callings and opportunities in teaching one another and bearing witness to the Lord.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.