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Sep 1, 2021 · A good teacher is concerned about wasting their student’s time. If you are teaching scripture, you tend to have a captive audience. If you work for an academic institution, your students must be there to pass the class. For the rest of us, we tend to teach in a church setting. What this means is the faithful will tend to show up whether we ...
- The Habit of Preparation. There have been a few times in my life when I began to teach knowing that I was painfully unprepared. I hadn’t spent the time necessary to give people my best.
- The Habit of Love. Excellent Bible teachers cultivate a love for the people whom they teach. They spend time with people and enjoy people. The best teachers make the best spouses, parents, and companions.
- The Habit of Prayer. Love will naturally lead the excellent teacher to pray for those whom they teach. Keeping lists of names and needs, they habitually labor in intercession for others.
- The Habit of Learning. Excellent Bible teachers regularly sharpen the axe of their own teaching. They read those with whom they agree and also those with whom they disagree.
Sep 27, 2016 · Ideally, an experienced teacher should ask someone to assist with a class. The two working together can develop a strategy for study and presentation. Preparing to teach a lesson on a text from the Bible means, for me, reading the text until I have almost memorized it. Then I commit — following a good friend’s advice — to study it four times.
- Center the text on Christ. What does this text have to do with Christ? How does it point to Christ? How can I help people see Christ in this text? The whole Bible points to Jesus.
- Stick to the point of the passage. What is the singular point of this passage? What are the secondary lessons that may be learned? How does everything in this text point to or flow from this singular point?
- Identify the purpose of the passage. Why is this passage here? What does it have to do with the larger context of God’s redemptive plan? What does this text have to do with the immediate surrounding context?
- Answer anticipated questions. What questions should I anticipate being asked? Have I answered all potential questions? Part of being a good teacher is putting yourself in the place of listeners.
- A good teacher asks himself the hardest questions, works through to answers, and then frames provocative questions for his learners to stimulate their thinking.
- A good teacher analyzes his subject matter into parts and sees relationships and discovers the unity of the whole.
- A good teacher knows the problems learners will have with his subject matter and encourages them and gets them over the humps of discouragement.
- A good teacher foresees objections and thinks them through so that he can answer them intelligently.
We find a warning in James 3:1 that should cause anyone wanting to be a teacher to evaluate the proposition carefully. “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness” (James 3:1 ESV). Those who use the King James Version of the Bible will notice that it has the ...
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1. Have a Strong Sense of Mission. As a Christian teacher, your mission as a teacher needs to go beyond just teaching academics. You need to know God has called you to the classroom, and you should also be looking for Him to change lives, regardless of where you teach.
