7 days: a week in the life of a bible study teacher
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7 Days: A Week in the Life of a Bible Study Teacher. What’s the purpose of Sunday School?. To Make Disciples !. Bible study is an important function of a Bible study group, but it is not the group's purpose. The purpose of a Bible study group is to impact lostness by making disciples . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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7 Days: A Week in the Life of a Bible Study
Teacher
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What’s the purposeof Sunday School?
To Make Disciples!
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Bible study is an important function of a Bible study group, but it is not the group's purpose. The purpose of a Bible study group is to impact lostness by making disciples.
Bob MayfieldMissional Pivot Points
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What does the Sunday School teacher do to accomplish this
purpose?
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How does the Sunday School teacher
do all of this in a week?
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Take it from Jethro…
Exodus 18:14-23
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What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?
Exodus 18:14
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What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.
Exodus 18:18
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Look for able men from all the people….it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Exodus 18:21,22
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How does Jethro’s advice translate to the Sunday School teacher today?
Enlist & give others opportunity to serve!
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Assistant Teacher
• Back-up• Preparing a leader for a new
(birthed) group
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Outreach/Missions Coordinator
• Helps organize outreach• Coordinates local mission
projects
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Care Group Leader(s)
• Ministry & encouragement• Communication
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Fellowship Coordinator
• Building relationships• Having fun together
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7:10 Principle (Ezra 7:10)
What is the taskof the teacher?
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Prepare
• Personal Prayer & Bible Study
• Lesson Preparation
…to study
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Practice
• Leading by example.• Modeling.• Missional Living.• Missions & Evangelism.
…to do it
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Proclaim
• This is your ministry in the Sunday School
…to teach
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[Ezra] studied before he attempted to live a life of
obedience, and he studied and practiced the law in his own
life before he opened his mouth to teach that law.
John MacArthurThe MacArthur Study Bible (NASB), 638
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In a word, the task of the Sunday School teacher
is to Lead.
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Teachers shape, challenge, and change people, and in doing so, they lead….The most powerful means of leading the people of God is teaching them the Word
of God.
Gary BredfeldtGreat Teacher Great Leader, 13, 18
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How does the Sunday School teacher effectively teach
the Bible?
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Begin on Your KneesThe most effective ministry of a Sunday School teacher is accomplished on his or her knees in prayer. Elmer L. Towns
What Every Sunday School Teacher Should Know
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Know…• What you are teaching• Where you are teaching• Who you are teaching• How you are teaching
(Adapted from article by J. David Apple)
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Know Your Objective & Stick to It
Make the main pointthe main point!
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Hook-Book-Look-TookTeaching Method
Lawrence O. Richards & Gary J. Bredfeldt Creative Bible Teaching
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HOOK• Gains attention• Surfaces a need• Sets a goal• Leads to Bible study
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BOOK
• Involves students in the study of the passage.
• Clarifies the meaning• Communicates the general
& transferable principle(s)
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LOOK
• Relates truth to life• Provides opportunity to
explore general implications• Motivates students to action
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TOOK• Provides opportunity to
identify life application• Leads to specific action or
life change• Allows meaningful
completion of lesson
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When does the Sunday School teacher do this during the
week?
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Teacher Tips&
Resources
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7 Days: A Week in the Life of a Bible Study
Teacher