What exactly does an equipping church do? Because we know God’s Word teaches us that every word of God was inspired, we first study that word. The word “equipping” is kartartismos and is a noun used only here in the New Testament. But the verb form of this noun is very descriptive, and its meaning is most clearly seen in the way this word is used in our Bibles. Turn to the first use of this word in the New Testament, Matthew 4:21.
Matthew 4:21 Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, NKJV
Did you see equipping? It is right there, only in this verse, that word is translated “mending”.
If you want to circle the word “mending” in your Bible and write nearby the word “equipping,” you have just made a powerful discovery. The Holy Spirit led Paul to use this word in Ephesians 4:11. The verb kartartidzo is here translated “mending”, and the noun form is translated “equipping” in Ephesians 4:11.
Now, the picture God’s Word gives to us. Jesus found his first disciples sitting and doing what fishermen do, looking through each part of their nets and stitching back up any tears, mending any holes, and fixing anywhere the nets had started to unravel. Mending is what this word portrays.
From GEM-03b – Grace-Energized Men of Balance in an Obsessive Compulsive World (071104AM)
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