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July 29, 2021
Category: Announcements
Online training and Bible studies abound in our day. What makes Biblearc EQUIP unique? Why do we exist?
Biblearc EQUIP exists to strengthen the church to follow Jesus by faithfully studying his Word.
What we teach
There’s a reason that Biblearc features so prominently in our name, Biblearc EQUIP. Biblearc (made up of The Biblearc Study Bible and Biblearc TOOLS) is a workshop that provides a context and set of tools for faithful Bible study and teaching. Biblearc EQUIP exists to strengthen the church to wield these tools faithfully and fruitfully. This is what makes us unique in the world of online Bible study education. We equip our students to dig deeper, read better, teach more faithfully, and learn more fruitfully with all we provid at biblearc.com.
Who we teach
Biblearc EQUIP exists to serve the church. This includes individual Christians, schools, ministries, and agencies. But in all these efforts, our equipping ministry is ultimately geared towards serving local churches. As we train students, we hope to empower them to better serve and bless their local churches, whether they are members, pastors, planters, deacons, missionaries, small group leaders, disciplers, teachers, etc.
As an online ministry, we want to serve local churches around the globe because we follow the all-sufficient Savior in his cosmic and universal gospel (Col 1:6, 15–23). Our hearts beat fastest when we think about serving churches in the Majority World, where access to the tools and training we provide is least available. We long to see Jesus magnified in all the world, especially in those places where his name has not yet been heard. So, our equipping efforts are particularly geared towards this goal of serving the Global Church.
Why we teach
We are an equipping ministry, not a merely educational ministry. What distinguishes these two kinds of ministry?
A merely educational ministry seeks only to teach content and pass on knowledge. An equipping ministry provides the tools necessary to do something. In this age of digital consumption, this is an essential difference. We do not want to puff up with knowledge but to build up with love. We do not want to grow in power and pride but to empower others in love. We do not want to produce fools but wise followers of Jesus, followers who then encourage others to follow them as they follow Christ.
So then, we equip churches to follow. Our content aims to give churches the tools to know God’s Word and so to obey God’s Word: to live lives of worship of God in Christ. We prepare students with these tools so that they can make disciples by teaching them all that Jesus has commanded in Scripture. We want to empower churches to live faithfully and fruitfully as those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes as he reveals his will in the path of his Word.
Finally, we must be clear that our aim centers on the Lord Jesus Christ. We equip churches to follow Jesus. We do not equip churches to follow a generic god or a specific idol. We equip them to know Jesus as God reveals him in Scripture and to make him known to others through Scripture. We equip the church to follow and to treasure and to worship our Lord Jesus Christ.