Equipping means providing items, equipment, tools, resources provided for a purpose.Now  may the God of peace— who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the  great Shepherd of the sheep, and ratified an eternal covenant with his  blood—Hebrews Endure suffering along with me, as a  good soldier of Christ Jesus. Soldiers don’t get tied up in the affairs  of civilian life, for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted  them.2 Timothy The church is an army, once  the church is an army, then you are a soldier of Christ. So endure  suffering as a soldier of Christ.