The Watchtower, study edition, March 2006.

This article will be studied during the week of May 4th through 10th.

Improve your art of teaching in the ministry.

Theme text, preach the word with all patience and art of teaching.

2 Timothy 4.2.

Song 53, preparing to preach.

Focus.

Three ways we can improve our teaching ability in the ministry.

Paragraph one question,

What skill should we want to develop and why?

Jesus told his followers,

make disciples teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you,

Matthew 28, 19, and 20.

This instruction indicates that all Christians should be teachers.

True, Jehovah draws those who are rightly disposed,

and the angels play a role in directing us to such ones.

Still, we need to do our part.

Consider the example set by the Apost apostles Paul and Barnabas. The Bible relates that when they preached in the synagogue in Iconium, they spoke in such a

manner that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks became believers. Acts 14. 1.

No doubt, Paul and Barnabas had developed the art of teaching.

2. Timothy 4.2 reads,

Preach the word, be at it urgently, in favorable times and difficult times.

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