7 Days: A Week in the Life of a Bible Study

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What’s the purposeof Sunday School?

To Make Disciples!

Bible study is an important function of a Bible study group, but it is not the group's purpose. The purpose of a Bible study group is to impact lostness by making disciples.

Bob MayfieldMissional Pivot Points

What does the Sunday School teacher do to accomplish this

purpose?

How does the Sunday School teacher

do all of this in a week?

Take it from Jethro…

Exodus 18:14-23

What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?

Exodus 18:14

What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.

Exodus 18:18

Look for able men from all the people….it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

Exodus 18:21,22

How does Jethro’s advice translate to the Sunday School teacher today?

Enlist & give others opportunity to serve!

Assistant Teacher

• Back-up• Preparing a leader for a new

(birthed) group

Outreach/Missions Coordinator

• Helps organize outreach• Coordinates local mission

projects

Care Group Leader(s)

• Ministry & encouragement• Communication

Fellowship Coordinator

• Building relationships• Having fun together

7:10 Principle (Ezra 7:10)

What is the taskof the teacher?

Prepare

• Personal Prayer & Bible Study

• Lesson Preparation

…to study

Practice

• Leading by example.• Modeling.• Missional Living.• Missions & Evangelism.

…to do it

Proclaim

• This is your ministry in the Sunday School

…to teach

[Ezra] studied before he attempted to live a life of

obedience, and he studied and practiced the law in his own

life before he opened his mouth to teach that law.

John MacArthurThe MacArthur Study Bible (NASB), 638

In a word, the task of the Sunday School teacher

is to Lead.

Teachers shape, challenge, and change people, and in doing so, they lead….The most powerful means of leading the people of God is teaching them the Word

of God.

Gary BredfeldtGreat Teacher Great Leader, 13, 18

How does the Sunday School teacher effectively teach

the Bible?

Begin on Your KneesThe most effective ministry of a Sunday School teacher is accomplished on his or her knees in prayer. Elmer L. Towns

What Every Sunday School Teacher Should Know

Know…• What you are teaching• Where you are teaching• Who you are teaching• How you are teaching

(Adapted from article by J. David Apple)

Know Your Objective & Stick to It

Make the main pointthe main point!

Hook-Book-Look-TookTeaching Method

Lawrence O. Richards & Gary J. Bredfeldt Creative Bible Teaching

HOOK• Gains attention• Surfaces a need• Sets a goal• Leads to Bible study

BOOK

• Involves students in the study of the passage.

• Clarifies the meaning• Communicates the general

& transferable principle(s)

LOOK

• Relates truth to life• Provides opportunity to

explore general implications• Motivates students to action

TOOK• Provides opportunity to

identify life application• Leads to specific action or

life change• Allows meaningful

completion of lesson

When does the Sunday School teacher do this during the

week?

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7 Days: A Week in the Life of a Bible Study

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