church structures its teaching ministry should be a matter of cultural preferences and styles. Paul adjusted his approach to the cultural norms of his day (1 Cor. 9:22). That the church must be focused on teaching as a means of making disciples is nonnegotiable. To fulfill its biblical mandate, the church must be, at its core, both a didactive and a doxological institution. The church has always understood its role in society to be both prophetic and redemptive. In its prophetic ministry it proclaims