The Equipping Ministry, Student Workbook, SW15

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T H E E Q U I P P I N G M I N I S T R Y

while constantly admonishing the students to relate the truth of God to their lives in a specific and particular way.

• We must passionately seek to excel in every dimension of our teaching craft, learning both how to design and apply effective teaching sessions, including how to build the entire lesson around teaching aims, developing a clear outline of our ideas, communicating in ways that resonate with our audience, all the while concentrating on obedience to the words of Jesus as our goal. • Our single aim in the teaching ministry is to enable our students to obey all that Christ has commanded us, and to do so not in their fleshly strength but through the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

I. Establish Contact with Your Hearers: Turn Your SPOTLIGHT First upon the Life Situation Where Your Students Live, Work, and Play.

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Start with the issues, concerns, burdens and experiences that you can use to launch into your lesson discussion. Prepare and teach lessons that pay careful attention to the culture and life situation of the students–their language, the ways in which they communicate, understand, process, and communicate ideas and truth.

We Are the Mission of the Lord to the World

The real work of God is done by the church in the world. The church, as William Temple once said, is the one institution that exists for those who are not its members. It does not have a mission; it is one. Mission comes from the heart of God, not from the need of the world. ~ R. Paul Stevens. The Equipper’s Guide to Every-Member Ministry . Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publishing, 2000. p. 15.

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A. Respect the culture and learning styles of your students, begin your teaching sessions with items and aspects which grow out of their experience.

1. Paul was free from any obligation to follow any culture, but he made himself available to use culture to teach the truth of God, 1 Cor. 9.19.

2. We must study the needs and issues of our people as well as the text and topic of our teaching sessions, 1 Thess. 2.7-9.

3. Don’t get lost in detail; stay focused on their lives and their discipleship.