Pastors and Bible teachers must be more than information-dump teachers--they must be able to exhort. The very notion of exhortations presuppose a practical dimension to our approach to Scripture. The Biblically-qualified teacher or elder is not an unimpassioned purveyor of impersonal truth. Rather, he is concerned with people's growth, and seeks to motivate and direct their lives towards specific, practical ends using Scripture in an equally specific and practical way. No Bible teacher should allow himself to be enmeshed in the ethereal realm of stratospheric theology, where the subject matter is so abstract and lofty that it precludes any life-related correctives. Rather, he is to be equipped to (1) influence the will, (2) stir the conscience, and (3) motivate men to action through the proper use of Scripture--not through illegitimate means such as tradition, precedent, personal pressure, manipulation, or politics.

• ...Teach and exhort these things. (1 Tim. 6:2)
  
  
• Preach the word! Be ready in season [and] out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. (2 Tim. 4:2)
  
  
• Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you. (Titus 2:15)

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