Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

Again i have never said i don’t believe in a gift named ‘teaching’ nor have i said there are two types of teaching gifts. Please stop with the assumptions that i am never saying. What i did say, is that the Pastor and teaching gifts are correlated in Eph, so it is wrong to only focus on a ‘teacher’ and not understand it in relation to Paul’s listing, which here in Eph he has incorporated it with a pastor.

You appear to be speaking in circles. In Eph 4:11 it doesn’t say teaching but teacher. You continually change “teacher” to “teaching” in Ephesians 4:11 and I would like to know why you do that. I have been talking about Ephesians 4:11 and the gift of “teacher”. It is time for you to answer the hard questions so I and others can get a handle on what you believe. Do you or do you not believe that Ephesians 4:11 gives “teacher” as a gift for the body of Christ? Secondly do you believe that “teacher” is not a gift on its own but must be amalgamated with pastor so that only pastors can be “teachers”? Please note that I am not saying “teaching” but “teachers”. Will you please answer my questions in a clear way and stop changing the noun to a verb? I would very much appreciate it.