Sunday, February 12, 2006
Lesson lesson
My “Glorify God” lesson had mixed impact. The Scripture puzzle was too complex and the examples I selected for the “subject/verb” disagreements were too difficult. While many people told me afterwards that the lesson made them think, I was disappointed that the puzzle was the focus of people’s thoughts rather than the Scripture passage. All the material should reinforce the Scripture passage, not detract from it. Sorry, my mistake.
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As a "student" that's been my experience as well. I've never really been spriritually challenged by a puzzle. The power I seek to harness and express as a teacher is hard to put into a cute puzzle. The only times as a student and teacher that I've been moved spiritually is when digging directly into the Word. That power we want is in the Gospel (Romans 1:16), and I believe that God has ordained that he reveals that Gospel primarly through his Word and our meditation on it (Joshua 1:8). So my attitude when teaching my class is that I can't wait to get into the Word. We do announcements, voice prayer requests, pray, and then jump into the Word. If there's time left at the end of class, I might hand out something funny or an interesting article I read during the week.
Well, the purpose of the puzzle was to get members to read the Word and think about it in enough depth to solve the puzzle. The trouble comes in working it in a constrained time period and as a group. A very simple puzzle can make point, but the one proposed went too far.
Regarding your other comments, I agree about the excitement of getting into the Word. The Holy Spirit is the real teacher, and He can work as members contemplate and meditate on the Word.
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