Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare, Mentor's Guide, MG08

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This is where you must do the majority of your own materials, dialogue, suggestions, and additions to the lesson. Helping the students consider options, implications, and ramifications of the teaching is arguably the most important part of the mentor’s role in this guided communal learning set. In helping your students think through their own situations, you might want to design some questions or use those provided below as water to “prime the pump” of their interests, so to speak. What is significant here is not the questions written below, but for you, in conversation with your students, to settle on a cadre of issues, concerns, questions, and ideas that flow directly from their experience, and relate to their lives and ministries. Do not hesitate to spend the majority of time on some question that arose from the video, or some special concern that is especially relevant in their ministry context right now. The goal of this section is for you to enable them to think critically and theologically in regards to their own lives and ministry contexts. Again, the questions below are provided as guides and primers, and ought not to be seen as absolute necessities. Pick and choose from among them, or come up with your own. The key is relevance, now, to their context and to their questions. Case studies are designed to pose a real or invented situation in which the actual principles and concepts of the lesson are on display in real or virtual-world environments. The focus here is on wisdom, gaining the ability to wrestle with a actual principle of Scripture in a setting that is not necessarily clear, that demands both knowledge and reflection, and encourages the students to actually apply the teaching as leaders in a setting that has real consequences. Because of this, do not try to make it appear as if there is a single response that is acceptable within the various case studies. Of course, where such an application is present, please emphasize it. However, since most of the case studies allow for a number of “right answers,” the goal here is to enable the students to use their spiritual and intellectual gifts to propose “possible ways out” of the dilemma or issues they are facing.

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