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- Applying the Bible to Life
Many Sunday school teachers resist the idea of making application, perceiving their role to be a teacher of Bible content and little more. “Students should just make the lesson application themselves,” they say. “That’s not really the teacher’s responsibility.” Is that your viewpoint? Read More. - Well, What Do You Know?
Educators are sometimes accused of being more concerned about content than about life. That accusation, perhaps occasionally justified, often overlooks one basic truth: life decisions are made from a cognitive foundation. What one knows (and doesn’t know) strongly affects his or her behavioral decisions. Read More.
- That You May Believe
As a writer, the apostle John follows a time-honored strategy: a clear-cut theme and purpose, supported with carefully chosen example after example. His theme? “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God!” His purpose? To convince all of that one grand truth, so that all may receive life in him. Read More. - Imitating Jesus’ Inclusive Ministry
Jeff Jackson (not his real name) is included in his Sunday school class at First Church. That may sound unremarkable unless you understand that Jeff has mental retardation and physical disabilities. That, however, has not prevented him from being accepted by the members of his class. They take turns caring for him. They call him each…Read More. - Emphasis
That is what writer and speaker strive for. God’s Spirit certainly knows emphasis. So, much of God’s Word is written in emphatic form and style. Poetic style, in which much of the Bible is presented, is always emphatic. In poetry there is the emphasis of repetition. This is especially true …Read More. - Real Places, Real Time
Studying history demands both a geographical and a chronological context. Such elements are part of what distinguishes truth from fantasy. Real events happen at real places. Real people experience real events. And real events always happen in relationship to other real events. . . .The Bible records real history. Real people. Real events. Real places. Real time. Its history is orderly and progressive. People are born, live, and die. Generation follows generation. A study in the book of Genesis offers an excellent opportunity to focus on the real history nature of the Bible. - It’s Their Story Too!
A series of lessons from Genesis provides a great opportunity for storytelling. Genesis involves wonderful narratives that demonstrate an unfolding drama of God in relation to his creation and his people. These narratives invite us to adopt them as a part of our own faith story. Your success as a teacher in this regard will help prevent your learners from approaching the studies as a mere series of facts. Read More.
