Mixed marriages violate the nature of the intimate relationship that marriage creates. Marriage creates a family and God’s people are to serve Him in their families. Families are the primary unit of spiritual nurture in the covenant of God because they are the instrument by which and the setting in which children are not only born but raised. Families have a great deal to do, in the economy of God’s grace, with the transmission of the faith from one generation to another. They must because of the nature of the relationship between parents and children: the intimacy, the constancy, the dependence, the trust, the example, the instruction that happens in a family and, especially, in a godly family. To take an unbeliever to wife, to bring into that family circle, in the key role of wife and mother, a woman who does not love God or know his salvation, who does not reverence his Word and law, is to violate the very purpose of a family and render it incapable of being and doing what it has been created for... He made the family, the godly family the instrument of his grace in the children’s lives. But a spiritually mixed marriage injects poison into the children’s milk.
Robert Rayburn

Introduction To TEaching

Introduction To TEaching 56 page 1 INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING

INTRODUCTION

  1. Welcome to class
  2. Comment on desire
  3. Outline of course
  4. Requirements of course
  5. Desire to be BETTER teacher. How?
  6. IMPORTANCE OF GOOD TEACHING
  7. We teach the most important truths in the world
  8. We are commanded to teach (cf. Mt. 28:19,20)

II. NECESSITY OF GOOD TEACHERS

  1. Christian Education is no better than its teachers
  2. Motto: “Consecrated incompetence is still incompetence.”
  3. All should seek to be the best possible (cf. l Co. 4:2)

III. TEACHING IS A SCIENCE (and can be learned)

  1. Many have innate gifts but all must learn
  2. Principles of good teaching can be mastered
  3. Conditions for good teaching can be planned and arranged
  4. Teaching is more than just telling
  5. Learning is not complete until the pupil is different for the experience

IV. PLAN CONDITIONS FOR GOOD TEACHING AND LEARNING

  1. Teacher must prepare thoroughly
  2. Teacher must consider learners (involve them)
  3. Teacher must consider goals
    1. “Carry over” into life is NOT automatic
    2. Seek changed conduct and attitudes
    3. A NEW LOOK AT LEARNING (flannelgraph)
  4. Which is more important (teacher or learner)?
  5. Which is more important (subject matter or method)?
  6. All are equally important

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. How is Christian character developed?
  2. When is “telling” not really teaching?
  3. What is the Pupil’s part in the teaching-learning process?
  4. How can a teacher secure the interest of pupils?
  5. What is the teacher’s basic aim?
  6. Can seating arrangement play an important part?
  7. Who does the most learning in Sunday School?

BUZZ SESSION:

  1. Discuss the outstanding teachers you have known:
  2. List the reasons you consider them outstanding:

ASSIGNMENT:

  1. Next week – “The Teacher”
  2. Read the handout
  3. Read the first 15 chapters of the book of John (2 or 3 chapters or 4 pages each day will require approximately 15-20 minutes)