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Tips for Teaching About the Church

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In a previous post we looked at four key truths about the Church. Now it is time to personalize these truths to the classroom. How can Bible teachers incorporate them into their teaching? Though it would be well to focus some lessons specifically and directly on the Church, these truths can and should be weaved throughout other lessons and demonstrated in the classroom.

Truth #1: God has an eternal purpose for the Church.

  • No matter what truth you might be teaching, emphasize their role to be a beacon of light in a dark world that might not live according to that truth. Get beyond mere cognitive teaching to helping students stand firm in the truth and live by it.
  • If people express grievances about today’s Church, keep taking them back to God and His purposes. Remind them of the kind of God we have who is able to work even through a flawed Church and who will triumph and prevail.

Truth #2: God has made Jesus the Head of the Church.

  • Stress that they should apply the truth not because you said so but because it is a way to show their love and adoration toward Jesus, the Head of the Church. Jesus said, “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love” (Jn. 15:10). “And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands.” (2 Jn. 1:6)
  • Make sure students understand that their ultimate accountability is to the One with full authority. While you, as their teacher, desire them to walk in obedience to the Lord, they are ultimately accountable to Him, not to you and not even to the Church.
  • Incorporate prayer into the sessions to seek His direction and strength to live out what is being learned.

Truth #3: God has entrusted the Church with His message of redemption.

  • Discuss the implications of what is being learned in class for how it can impact the way they live out in the world.
  • Provide instruction on sharing the good news and how to lead people to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
  • Recommend or provide tools for them to witness.
  • Emphasize the need to rely on His Spirit to work in and through them.
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Truth #4: God has designed the Church to function interdependently.

  • Help students identify their part and encourage them in it.
  • Structure the class to provide opportunity for community, to experience what it means to be the Church on a small scale.
  • Encourage students to share what God is doing in and through their lives, especially as it relates to what is being learned, and pray for one another.
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