Post by Zac Loh on Oct 30, 2007 7:50:20 GMT -5
For a number of years, I have been teaching in a small group setting. I prepared the below 12 keys to help the brother who took over when I left.
1. Understand the direction you are heading towards (why am I teaching this?). Prepare a point of emphasis (the issue at hand).
2. Have clarity and sureness - of the centrality of the message (the heart, soul and spirit of the message). Summarize the message in your own personal way (in less than 10 words).
3. Make you own notes, explaining and elaborating the content provided using your own words in a separate piece of paper (otherwise things will be too jumbled-up and murky).
4. Lookout for trouble areas in understanding the jigsaw puzzle of the subject. Prepare to deal with it and offer an answer (your answer might not be perfect, but at least you provide a good option of an answer)
5. Draw contribution and involvement from the whole group i.e. each one taking turns to read; pick someone to answer a question (always have the answer in hand, do not have to improve the answer given if it is reasonably close to the right answer, instead praise and encourage; if answer is too wrong, provide comfort to the participant after making the clarification – not dismissing nor rebutting the participant). Questions must not be too easy nor too difficult.
6. Relate and connect (we are not presenting, reading nor talking – but communicating to get a response). Chemistry with the group and heartfelt response are vital.
7. Illustrate using examples and testimonies.
8. Purpose. What is God saying? What is God’s purpose for today’s discussion? The answer should not be something you normally, automatically, assumed. But what is God’s expressed emphasis, direction and motive - for us here, in this discussion today?
9. Revelation. Be open to God’s impartation. Your spiritual eyesight, antenna and radar - must be able to detect God’s revelation while you are teaching. Be ready as God might drop a nugget of truth while you speak.
Be in-tune. Be sensitive. Capture it. Share it. Don’t be afraid. Trust God. Exercise your faith. The revelation will flow!
10. Conviction. A person is nothing without a conviction. We must be emphatic, not pathetic. People can identify with your conviction.
Learning itself is not sufficient. We must add conviction to our learning.
11. Anointing. The Holy Spirit will confirm the truth which is inspired from heaven, as the Holy Spirit Himself is leading us while we are teaching.
The Holy Spirit will move when our teaching is `right on’.
If we do miss it …and we are empty and void of the Holy Spirit …then just learn from this experience, and move on.
12. Participation And Faith. Get everybody to move along. Inspire faith in them in the moving of the Holy Spirit. Gifts of the Holy Spirit will operate. Let us be open to them. God will bring divine blessings! Let us trust Him wholly!
1. Understand the direction you are heading towards (why am I teaching this?). Prepare a point of emphasis (the issue at hand).
2. Have clarity and sureness - of the centrality of the message (the heart, soul and spirit of the message). Summarize the message in your own personal way (in less than 10 words).
3. Make you own notes, explaining and elaborating the content provided using your own words in a separate piece of paper (otherwise things will be too jumbled-up and murky).
4. Lookout for trouble areas in understanding the jigsaw puzzle of the subject. Prepare to deal with it and offer an answer (your answer might not be perfect, but at least you provide a good option of an answer)
5. Draw contribution and involvement from the whole group i.e. each one taking turns to read; pick someone to answer a question (always have the answer in hand, do not have to improve the answer given if it is reasonably close to the right answer, instead praise and encourage; if answer is too wrong, provide comfort to the participant after making the clarification – not dismissing nor rebutting the participant). Questions must not be too easy nor too difficult.
6. Relate and connect (we are not presenting, reading nor talking – but communicating to get a response). Chemistry with the group and heartfelt response are vital.
7. Illustrate using examples and testimonies.
8. Purpose. What is God saying? What is God’s purpose for today’s discussion? The answer should not be something you normally, automatically, assumed. But what is God’s expressed emphasis, direction and motive - for us here, in this discussion today?
9. Revelation. Be open to God’s impartation. Your spiritual eyesight, antenna and radar - must be able to detect God’s revelation while you are teaching. Be ready as God might drop a nugget of truth while you speak.
Be in-tune. Be sensitive. Capture it. Share it. Don’t be afraid. Trust God. Exercise your faith. The revelation will flow!
10. Conviction. A person is nothing without a conviction. We must be emphatic, not pathetic. People can identify with your conviction.
Learning itself is not sufficient. We must add conviction to our learning.
11. Anointing. The Holy Spirit will confirm the truth which is inspired from heaven, as the Holy Spirit Himself is leading us while we are teaching.
The Holy Spirit will move when our teaching is `right on’.
If we do miss it …and we are empty and void of the Holy Spirit …then just learn from this experience, and move on.
12. Participation And Faith. Get everybody to move along. Inspire faith in them in the moving of the Holy Spirit. Gifts of the Holy Spirit will operate. Let us be open to them. God will bring divine blessings! Let us trust Him wholly!