Friends make themselves available to spend time with each other, whether in person or by phone, texting, video chat, or other means. If the person has a problem, the friend tries to be there in ways that matter.
Bible Teachers Who Make Themselves Available Show They Care
Friends make themselves emotionally and spiritually available, not just physically present. Rarely would anyone identify someone who is unresponsive, unsympathetic, unreliable, and uncaring as a friend.
Bible teachers who take on the role of friend, likewise must make themselves available to their students both in-class and out of class.
The Bible Teacher’s Role Download suggests how teachers might make themselves available both in and out of class and what that communicates to students. The resource also looks at other aspects of being a friend along with seven other roles Bible teachers might assume to make the greatest difference in people’s lives.