The Effective Bible Teacher

Effective Bible Teachers love the people in their group.

10 Essential Tips for Effective Bible Teaching

They hang out with them. They have them in their homes. They are with them. Effective Bible Teachers lead people to love.

They lead people to lay down their lives in service to others. They lead people to care. Effective Bible Teachers lead people to love the Word as they love the Word. The Psalmist said it is sweeter than honey.

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In another place, "Oh how I love the law. Effective Bible Teachers make a difference. Their classes are different because of the way they teach.

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Their people are different because of their influence on their lives. Their corner of the world is different because it is infected by people who are salt and light. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Effective Bible Teacher , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Effective Bible Teacher. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Mar 12, Clark Goble rated it really liked it.

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I like the author of this book. He offers good, common sense advice for the Bible Study teacher. I would have given it five stars but I would have liked to see him go more in depth on his preparation process and, at times, I felt like I was reading a commercial for his other books. Finding a theme communicates the message of the text in a similar way to the big idea.

Inductive Bible study can be a group project pp.

Directed Bible studies can be good with new Christians pp. In a directed study the teacher will prepare a formal lesson and present that to the class. Even though this type of study limits participant interaction and involvement, it can be used as a good way to convey accurate Bible information for people new in their faith. Write good questions pp. At the heart of a great group led inductive Bible study are questions. Good questions should be precise, focus on important issues, have a purpose, provoke thoughts among the students, be answerable by the entire group, and be open ended.

The idea that good teachers are extroverts is a myth p. Introverts can also be great teachers as long as they can find ways to connect with participants. When teaching the Bible it is important to remember that the entire Bible has unity pp.

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Since the Bible spans at least 4, years of human history it is easy to see it as separate information Old and New Testaments, before Jesus and after Jesus, different dispensations , etc. Instead, teachers must remember that the Bible has theological unity about God, creation, the nature of people, salvation, the church, and eschatology.

The Bible also has narrative unity of plot conflict, central characters in every story, and an arrangement that is mostly chronological. Always remember that the Bible is great literature pp. As great literature the Bible teacher must remind himself that the Bible incorporates incarnation, human experience, meaning through form, and archetypes. Its methods, which have been field-tested for twenty-five years, help pastors, teachers, and ministry students improve their classroom skills. Readers will learn how to develop the "big idea" of a passage and allow the text itself to suggest creative teaching methods.

This new edition has been updated throughout and explores the changed landscape of Bible study over the past two decades.

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Readable and interdisciplinary in approach, this book will help a new generation of Bible students teach in a purposeful and unified way. The Changing Landscape of Bible Study 2. The Church's Unfinished Task 3. The Tasks of the Effective Teacher 4. The Human Element in Teaching Part 2: The Methods of Effective Bible Teaching. Discovering Unity in Biblical Passages: The Genre and Structure of a Passage 6. Thematic Unity in Biblical Passages: Teaching the Big Idea.