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As a teacher, you teach, but what do your learners need to learn?
- Why?: As a teacher, you need to teach, but what do your learners need to learn?
- What?: If you've been with a group of learners for a while, you get a sense of where they are in their Christian walk. From that, you can have some idea of what they need. But, even if you're walking into a new group, people you've never taught before, you know what kinds of things they need because, as image-bearers of God, we share similar basic needs with every person who's ever walked the earth. We also share the same ultimate needs of every person—ultimately, we need to be conformed to the image of Christ. Our hearts need to be conformed to His so that we want the things Christ wants. Our minds need to be conformed to His so that, as Paul says in Romans chapter 12, verse 2, we "may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God." And, our behavior needs to be conformed to Christ's so that we're obedient to God. These three—hearts, minds, and actions—are ways of describing wisdom. What we as teachers and they as learners need, ultimately, is wisdom so that in every relationship in every sphere of our lives—that is, in our personal life, in our family, church, job, community, and even in our recreation—we are wise because we are more conformed to the image of Christ.
- So What?: Consider how the lesson you're preparing could be used by the Holy Spirit. He can superintend the lesson preparation if you are obediently and humbly preparing it. He can prepare your learners for the lesson. Then, as you teach and they learn, the Holy Spirit can use that moment to conform each of you to be more Christlike, to be more wise.
- So What Now?: Will you commit every lesson to the will of the Father? Submit every lesson and every learner to the work of the Holy Spirit? And then see your learners conformed to the image of Christ? God knows what your learners need and can you use to meet those needs.
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By Dr. Danny R. Bowen @ TeachersOfTheBible- Why?: As a teacher, you need to teach, but what do your learners need to learn?
- What?: If you've been with a group of learners for a while, you get a sense of where they are in their Christian walk. From that, you can have some idea of what they need. But, even if you're walking into a new group, people you've never taught before, you know what kinds of things they need because, as image-bearers of God, we share similar basic needs with every person who's ever walked the earth. We also share the same ultimate needs of every person—ultimately, we need to be conformed to the image of Christ. Our hearts need to be conformed to His so that we want the things Christ wants. Our minds need to be conformed to His so that, as Paul says in Romans chapter 12, verse 2, we "may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God." And, our behavior needs to be conformed to Christ's so that we're obedient to God. These three—hearts, minds, and actions—are ways of describing wisdom. What we as teachers and they as learners need, ultimately, is wisdom so that in every relationship in every sphere of our lives—that is, in our personal life, in our family, church, job, community, and even in our recreation—we are wise because we are more conformed to the image of Christ.
- So What?: Consider how the lesson you're preparing could be used by the Holy Spirit. He can superintend the lesson preparation if you are obediently and humbly preparing it. He can prepare your learners for the lesson. Then, as you teach and they learn, the Holy Spirit can use that moment to conform each of you to be more Christlike, to be more wise.
- So What Now?: Will you commit every lesson to the will of the Father? Submit every lesson and every learner to the work of the Holy Spirit? And then see your learners conformed to the image of Christ? God knows what your learners need and can you use to meet those needs.