The teacher who strives to build Bible literacy needs to stay put. We teachers are prone to wander, particularly when our primary text is a difficult one. Good teaching will necessarily involve the use of cross-references, but not at the expense of the primary text. She will have discovered that the text at hand is worthy of forty undistracted minutes of the group’s time, that those forty minutes will probably not be enough time to resolve her questions on that text alone. She will want to linger there, as she should. Have you ever settled in to hear a teaching on a key text, only to have the teacher read through the passage briefly before spending forty minutes ricocheting around the entire Bible? A student who has spent a week parsing a chapter of Ephesians will not be satisfied if the teacher uses the key text merely as a launch pad. Knowing that they will think critically about my teaching holds me accountable to avoid seven common teaching pitfalls. My hope is that by giving Bible study participants homework, it will challenge their thinking enough that by the time they hear me teach, they won’t just take my word for it. Teaching a passage of Scripture to those who have studied it is far more demanding than teaching one to those who have not.
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