Norma Everist's 'The Church As Learning Community'

Norma Everist in the book, The Church as Learning Community maintains heretofore we have viewed equipping teachers for the task of teaching as leaders have the ability with knowledge and skill to provide what is needed to prepare teachers to teach. She alludes that this thinking does not fully encompass the magnitude of “equipping”. While I agree with her that in the equipping process leaders must engage in listening and stirring up the teachers’ gifts, I believe we are all at different stages of our development, therefore some have the capacity and skill to equip others. She uses Ephesians chapter four as the framework for her discussion in chapter six of her book. Specifically, in verse eleven of Ephesians four, which states, the gifts