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

a. What do you see as you observe the lives and issues of your students?

b. What do you hear in their conversations about what is taking place around them?

c. What can you sense regarding their fears, desires, and aspirations at the current time in their lives?

3. Get concrete answers to these questions and ponder how you might connect these ideas and experiences to your subject.

II. Communicate the Word of God Effectively: in Teaching Your Lessons, Paint the PICTURE in the Eyes of Your Listeners to Show Them the Truths You Want Them to Embrace and Live; Do Not Merely Tell Them about It.

Christ’s Method to Win the World: Make Disciples

This task of fulfill- ing the Great Commission seems so staggering that even visionaries might be overwhelmed and wind up doing nothing. But the Bible is a method book, as well as a message book. And Christ’s method is to make disciples. ~ Keith Phillips. The Making of A Disciple . Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1981. p. 22.

Prepare and teach lessons that communicate the Word as clearly, boldly, and concretely as possible.

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A. Communicate the Word of God clearly.

1. First things first: meditate and pray long and deep on the passage you intend to communicate; ask God for new and right insights, Ps. 1.1-3; 1 Tim. 4.7-16; Josh. 1.8.

2. Making contact with your listeners is only a start; the goal of communication is to “speak the truth in love,” Eph. 4.15.