Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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F O C U S O N R E P R O D U C T I O N

While the first part of the lesson concentrates on the need for the students to master the concepts in the material , from this moment on the focus is on helping your students master their own applications in their personal lives . In other words, students need at least two modes of reflection as they go through the lesson. The first mode is intellectual and dialogical, and focuses on their ability to wrestle with difficult concepts to gain a sense of what the Scriptures actually teach on a particular subject. This mode is critical . However, there is another mode, equally important, which has an entirely different focus. This second mode is personal and spiritual, and focuses on their ability to evaluate the meaning of the truths they have learned relative to their own life applications and ministries. This mode is primarily creative . In light of these ideas, it will always be important at some time in the lesson to shift gears, so to speak, and enable the students to begin to think through their own situations with a greater focus and deliberation. The questions in this section are always designed to be “kindling” to ignite their own fires of inquiry, so to speak. What is significant here is not that they answer the particular questions written below , but that they engage the concepts in such a way that they turn their attention to their evaluation and application of the issues and themes to their own lives and ministries. In your conversation with your students, seek to help them 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 among them, or come up with your own. The key is relevance now, to their context and to their questions.

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