My Teaching Matters

054 Learn How Using Essential Conversations Will Change the Way You Teach (with Verity Simmons)


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Our youth have been saved and prepared to come to earth at this time when Satan has great hold upon the hearts of men.  They have been taught in the premortal life all of the things they need to succeed during their time on earth.

As parents, it is our sacred responsibility to help our children remember these things they were taught.  We must take advantage of the  natural experiences our children have to help them connect what they are experiencing to the eternal truths they already know.

In this episode, Verity Simmons shares some enlightening examples of how she uses natural, yet essential conversations to help teach the gospel to her young family.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/language-materials/32709_eng.pdf?lang=eng

"To treat them as children spiritually, as the world might treat the

same age group, is therefore and likewise an anachronism. I say once

more, there is scarcely a youth that comes through your seminary or

institute door who has not been the conscious beneficiary of spiritual

blessings, or who has not seen the efficacy of prayer, or who has not

witnessed the power of faith to heal the sick, or who has not beheld

spiritual outpourings of which the world at large is today ignorant.

You do not have to sneak up behind this spiritually experienced

youth and whisper religion in his ears; you can come right out, face

to face, and talk with him. You do not need to disguise religious

truths with a cloak of worldly things; you can bring these truths to

him openly, in their natural guise. Youth may prove to be not more

fearful of them than you are. There is no need for gradual

approaches, for “bedtime” stories, for coddling, for patronizing, or

for any of the other childish devices used in efforts to reach those

spiritually inexperienced and all but spiritually dead."

The Charted Course of the Church in Education

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