Not All Of You Should Be Teachers

Teachers hate to grade papers.

Not all of you should be teachers. It is a necessary part of the job but it is also extremely monotonous and time. Matthew 23 8 but you are not to be called rabbi for you have one teacher and you are all brothers. But rather let not many of you become teachers 2. If you love a challenge and know that you have what it takes you should consider a life in the classroom.

This passage is not just a rebuke of those who try to be teachers before they are ready but a warning that many should not even become teachers in the future. The fate of hundreds of students will be in your hands if you become a teacher this is a massive and amazing responsibility. And are become such as have need of milk and not of solid food. Concerning him melchizedek as a type of christ we have much to say and it is hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing.

Teachers are not always excited about what they are teaching. I was a high school teacher for nearly 40 years and before i landed a full time public school job spent a year or two as a substitute. As a teacher there are going to be times where you will be observed formally or informally that s also why you should give 100 at all times. For indeed although you ought to be teachers by this time you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of god and you have need of milk not solid food.

The time that has elapsed since your conversion ye ought to be teachers ye have need that some one teach you or that one teach you which be the first principles literally the elements of the beginning of the oracles of god. There is usually some required content that they do not enjoy teaching. For when by reason of the time i e. Teachers genuinely want the best for all of their students.

They never want to see a child fail. Acts 13 1 in the church at antioch there were prophets and teachers. It is a mistake to believe that everyone should become a teacher at some point in their service to christ. New king james version.

13 for everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed. 12 for though by this time you ought to be teachers you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of god and you have come to need milk and not solid food. James 3 1 nkjv my brethren let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. James 3 1 niv not many of you should become teachers my fellow believers because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

Tlb you have been christians a long time now and you ought to be teaching others but instead you have dropped back to the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first. τῆς ἀρχῆς in this verse seems best.