God the Father, Mentor's Guide, MG06

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G O D T H E F A T H E R

This section is critical for a “snapshot” of all the key concepts covered in the video teaching segments. These truths represent the fundamental truths that the students should have mastered as they have discussed, studied, read their textbooks and materials, and gleaned from other sources for this lesson. If you want to rehearse quickly with the students the critical ideas for the lesson, this is the section that you ought to take them through. This list then becomes a handy ready-reference of the big ideas for each lesson. Make sure that these concepts are clearly defined and carefully considered, for their quiz work and exams will be taken from these items directly. One of the most important habits to cultivate in your students is the ability to not only master the contents of various material, but to discover new contexts in which the truths just found may be applied and appropriated. Creative application of the truth demands a willingness to explore connections, to make suggested applications, to think through their own situations in order that they might engage the text with a new level of seriousness and commitment. The rule of thumb for this section is simple: the best questions are the ones that are important to the students where they are . 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 help them 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.

10 Page 33 Summary of Key Concepts

11 Page 34 Student Application and Implications

These case studies have been informed by experiences in real ministry situations, and reflect the kinds of applications that your students will likely encounter as they minister in the city. What is significant about them is that they are not academically

12 Page 35 Case Studies