How does teaching benefit the church?

Ephesians 4:11-14Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.

Fellow believers with the gift of teaching equip and edify us toward the Christlikeness and discernment that mark maturity and preserves the truth of the gospel and the wisdom of godly living.

Matthew 7:24“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.”

Learning from Jesus will make us wise and confident in him.