Discipleship Across the Lifespan

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Discipleship Across the Lifespan

• Trinity International University
• Class 4a

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Agree or Disagree?

• Practice makes Perfect

Practice makes Permanent
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Agree or Disagree?
Evaluated

• Experience is the best teacher

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The primary test of a teacher is
What you do
What your students do
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Recent assignments have focused upon what YOU do
as a learner

• Bible Study
• Prayer Worship
• Evangelism Service
• Giving of Time Resources

How have these assignments had a practical effect
in your life?
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James 123-24

• For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a
  doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural
  face in a mirror 24 for once he has looked at
  himself and gone away, he has immediately
  forgotten what kind of person he was.

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As a general rule, dont teach your students that
which they can learn for themselves
There are several Exceptions

• When time is a factor
• When the student is a beginner
• When there is danger of damage

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Early childhood influences

• From your interviews, what did you see about the
  impact of such influences toward spiritual
  maturity?

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Early childhood influences

• How does your local church allow and/or encourage
  these kinds of encounters?

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Small Group Exercise

• List the people who have been influential in your
  life

Describe in your groups the models they portrayed
to impact your life
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Social Learning Theory

• How does a child learn socially acceptable
  behavior?

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Two Models of Education
Socialization Model
Instructional Model
Teacher gives information to student
Student follows group example
Student listens to what teacher SAYS
Student sees how teacher LIVES
A traditional method
A natural method
Can be detached
Personal by nature
Emphasis on knowledge
Emphasis on real life and faith
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Two Types of Behavioral Models

• Symbolic Model

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Two Types of Behavioral Models

• Symbolic Model
• Exemplary Model
• Parents
• Teachers
• Youth leaders
• Pastors

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Two Types of Behavioral Models

• What can we do in the church to increase the
  effectiveness of such socialization learning
  opportunities?

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Negative Aspects of Socialization as a Ministry
Model
Downs, Page 162-ff

• People can imitate behavior and not know God
• Socialization is weak in communicating
  propositional truth
• Socialization focuses on experience, not on
  absolute truth

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• The mind cannot contain
• what the seat cannot endure

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If you are paralyzed at one end, there is a good
chance you are also paralyzed at the other. ?
Howard Hendricks
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