Teaching Adults Bible Classes - Teacher Training Resources
Bible teachers of adult classes need to understand the age level characteristics and needs of adulthood to better reach and teach adults. That's the objective of the resources listed on this page. If you're looking for help with adult ministry in general, check out the adult ministry resources page on the MinTools.com site.
Click below to find teacher training resources for the following adult age divisions:
Order the Age Level Characteristics:
Adults Module Download to think through how the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual age level developmental characteristics of college and career, young adults, middle age adults, and older adults affect how to teach an adult Bible class.
Adults Module Download to think through how the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual age level developmental characteristics of college and career, young adults, middle age adults, and older adults affect how to teach an adult Bible class.
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General Adult Teaching Resources
Articles, Online:
- 3 Tips for Teaching Adults
- A Place Adults Want to Be
- A Place Adults Don't Want to Be
- Adult Bible Teachers as Co-learners
- Adults Coping with Life's Responsibilities
- Adults Studying the Bible: Equipping Them Helps
- Adults Studying the Bible: Finding It Useful Helps
- Adults Studying the Bible: Wanting to Know the Author Helps
- FAQ About Teaching Adults
- How to write adult Sunday school lessons in 6 steps
- Jesus Invested Heavily into Adult Ministry
- Lecture is Good to Use with Adults, Right?
- Make Adult Ministry Instructional
- Make Adult Ministry Internally Impacting
- Methods for Adult Bible Classes
- No Choice But to Use Lecture with Adults?
- Object Lessons for Adults?
- Tips for Teaching Adults
- What you need to know as a teacher of adults
Books:
- 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Adults: Using Our Multiple Intelligences to Build Faith by Barbara Bruce
- Disciple Making Teachers: How to Equip Adults for Growth and Action by Josh Hunt
- Focus on Adults: A Handbook for Teachers by William P. Campbell
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Adult by Ed Steward, Neal McBride, Sherie Lindvall, Monroe Marlowe
- Ministering to Today's Adults by Kenneth O. Gangel
- R.E.A.L.: Surprisingly Simple Ways to Engage Adults by Group Publishing
- Start Here: Teaching and Learning with Adults by Barbara Bruce
- Teaching That Transforms: Facilitating Life Change Through Adult Bible Teaching by Richard R. Melick Jr., Shera Melick
- Teaching the Bible to Adults and Youth by Dick Murray
- The Christian Educator's Handbook on Adult Education by Kenneth O. Gangel (editor)
- Tips For Teachers: Adults by Brett Deyoung, Greg Bowman
Group Sessions:
- Breaking Down the Walls: Teaching Adult Bible Classes by Ministry Tools Resource Center
Adults tend to build walls around themselves that block out unwanted feelings, keep a distance between them and other people, and hide who they really are. In teaching adults this poses a problem because these walls can also keep truth and growth opportunities from getting in. This session will help teachers of adult classes focus on tools they can use to chisel away at those protective barriers.
Resources:
- Bible Study Discussion Guides: Discussion Guides from Ministry Tools Resource Center
- Bible Studies Guides: Other Bible Study Guides (non DVD)
- DVDs: Adult DVD Video Curriculum
- Sunday School Curriculum: Answers Bible Curriculum by Answers in Genesis
- Sunday School Curriculum: Fearless Conversation Adult by Group Publishing
- Sunday School Curriculum: Standard Lesson Quarterly by Standard Publishing
- Sunday School Curriculum: More Sunday School Curriculum
Worksheets:
- Some Outreach Do's & Don'ts for the Adult Classroom by Ministry Tools Resource Center
Some adult church-goers may have grown up in a Christian home and acquired a lifestyle consistent with being a Christian yet never entered into a personal relationship with Jesus. Some might consider themselves Christians simply because they aren't atheists. Teachers of adult classes shouldn't assume all students are true believers in Jesus Christ. This 5 page teacher training worksheet provides seven suggestions, written as do's and don'ts, to implement if you want to reach those who might not truly know the Lord.
Videos:
- YouTube Video: Adult Learning Styles
- YouTube Video: Sunday School Teacher Training - Teachers are Leaders by Allan Taylor - geared to the adult division of the S.S. (learn from how they do it at this church)
Other Age Divisions: Early Childhood - Grade School - Youth (Teens)
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