Delivering New Knowledge

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Delivering New Knowledge
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Objective

• And they were astonished at His teaching, for He
  taught them as one having authority, and not as
  the scribes. (Mark 122)
• Pointers on preparing lessons
• Signs of successful presentation

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Preparing Lessons

• Self-preparation
• Pray for guidance.
• Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to the lessons
  that will best meet the needs of your students.
• Consider the topic
• Begin by reading about it a few days before
  preparing
• Take a day or more to think and contemplate
• Live the lesson first!

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Preparing Lessons

• Structure
• Prayer/Meditation
• Objective
• Verse
• Reference
• Introduction
• Lesson Outline
• Application/Homework
• Conclusion/Questions

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Preparing Lessons

• Prayer/Meditation
• Reflects our own thoughts and meditations
• Not personal/confession
• Prayer
• Objective
• Specific
• Fit for the audience
• Our responsibility as Christians to forgive
  others and the personal benefits in forgiving
  others

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Preparing Lessons

• Verse
• Relevant to objective
• Repeated throughout the lesson
• For if you forgive men their trespasses, your
  heavenly Father will also forgive you (Matthew
  614).
• Reference
• Bible
• Church Fathers
• Orthodox Writers
• Non-orthodox writers cautiously
• Not for Dogma, Sacraments, Theology

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Preparing Lessons

• Introduction
• Attractive
• Story, news article, question
• Not directly related dont give away the topic
• The year was 1947. It was almost two full years
  after the liberation of Auschwitz (a Nazi
  concentration camp), as Corrie Ten Boom stepped
  forward to share the message of forgiveness and
  healing at a German church. As she stepped
  forward she prayed that God would use her words
  to bring about healing, forgiveness and
  restoration. What she was about to experience
  changed her life forever

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Preparing Lessons

• Lesson Outline
• Organized thoughts
• No more than 3 main points
• Transition between the points
• I. Parable of the two debtors
• II. Understanding the Parable
• III. What does it imply when we cannot forgive
  others?

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Preparing Lessons

• Application/Homework
• Most important
• Most overlooked
• Brings the lesson to life
• Make a list of people that you are awaiting to
  forgive and pray that God would help you in
  forgiving them.
• Conclusion/Questions
• Review
• Tie the points with objective, verse,
  introduction
• Closure

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Preparing Lessons

• Lesson Review
• Very important
• Assurance of proper knowledge
• Teaching tool
• Communication
• Non-invasive

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Objective

• And they were astonished at His teaching, for He
  taught them as one having authority, and not as
  the scribes. (Mark 122)
• Pointers on preparing lessons
• Signs of successful presentation

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Successful Presentation

• Eye contact
• Are the students looking attentive to the
  speaker?
• Are they wondering off?
• Completing the thoughts
• Completing the verse as the teacher begins
• Conclude the outcome of a story
• Questions
• Not Yes/No
• Open-ended thought-provoking

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Successful Presentation

• Presentation style
• Language fit for the audience
• Christ used parables general people
• But not to the disciples
• Because it has been given to you to know the
  mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them
  it has not been given. (Matt 13)
• Young Children stories, movies, puppets, crafts,
  animals
• Older Children stories, simple thoughts, easy
  topics
• Adolescent more complex thoughts, controversial
  issues
• Body Language
• Belief in what is being taught