{"id":12044,"date":"2021-11-05T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainbibleteachers.com\/blog\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:42:16","slug":"bible-verses-new-to-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainbibleteachers.com\/blog\/bible-verses-new-to-teaching.htm","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verses for Those New to Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we’re recruiting people to teach the Bible, that which is inspired by God, it only makes sense that we use His Word to stress the importance of learning how to teach it but also to help them focus on what’s most important. The Bible itself should be the starting point for those new to teaching.<\/p>\n

Importance of Learning How to Teach God’s Word<\/h2>\n

The Bible makes it clear that those who teach will be held accountable for how they handle God’s Word. This is one of the first things those who are new to teaching need to realize so they take teacher training seriously.<\/p>\n

\"BibleDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. (2 Tim. 2:15)<\/em><\/p>\n

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (James 3:1)<\/em><\/p>\n

Bible Verses Pointing to What Those New to Teaching Should Focus On<\/h2>\n

While there are many verses and passages of Scripture that lay a good foundation for teaching<\/a>, in addition to those listed above, we’ll zero in on some that point to the kind of focus people new to teaching need to acquire and maintain.<\/p>\n

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  1. Focus on your heart, not just teaching skills.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Sam. 16:7)<\/em><\/p>\n

    Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. (Prov. 4:23)<\/em><\/p>\n

    A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. (Lk. 6:45)<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. Focus on your students’ heart and their relationship with the Lord, not just imparting knowledge or external conformity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord\u2019s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge\u2014that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:16-19)<\/em><\/p>\n

      We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. (Col. 1:9-10)<\/em><\/p>\n

      In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy … being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 1:4-6)<\/em><\/p>\n

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      1. Focus on what God does in and through you, not just what you do.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.(Prov. 3:5-6)<\/em><\/p>\n

        I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (Jn. 15:5)<\/em><\/p>\n

        This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (1 Cor. 2:13-14)<\/em><\/p>\n

        I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.(1 Cor. 3:6-7)<\/em><\/p>\n

        … for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Phil. 2:13)<\/em><\/p>\n

        Helpful Resource for New Teachers: Teaching Ministry Manual – A Teaching Ministry Primer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Since we\u2019re recruiting people to teach the Bible, that which is inspired by God, it only makes sense that we use His Word to stress the importance of learning how to teach it but also to help them focus on what\u2019s most important. The Bible itself should be the starting point for those new to teaching. . . . Continue reading Bible Verses for Those New to Teaching<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teacher-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t