World Evangelism Podcast

From Preparation to Transformation: A Teacher's Guide

September 15, 2024 W. Austin Gardner Season 1 Episode 52

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What if every Sunday school lesson you teach could be a transformative and heartfelt experience for you and your students? In this episode, we promise to unlock the secrets to becoming a dedicated and impactful Sunday school teacher. Discover how full preparation and a genuine love for your students and the Word of God can turn a simple lesson into a life-changing encounter. By engaging deeply with the scripture and ensuring each lesson is fresh, prayed over, and thoughtfully crafted, you can make a significant difference in your students' spiritual journey.

We emphasize the power of approaching your teaching with intentionality and passion, seeing every moment as an opportunity to influence lives positively. It's not just about avoiding old, reheated materials but about letting God's work resonate in your own life first. By fostering a heartfelt connection with your students and treating them as friends, you create a nurturing environment where spiritual growth thrives. Listen in and let us inspire you to teach with renewed vigor, making sure every lesson is impactful and infused with God's love.

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W. Austin Gardner:

We are continuing on the thought of a few steps to grow us as teachers. And so the passage of scripture says meditate on these things, give thyself holy to them that thy profiting may appear to all. In other words, I want to be in the word of God in such a way that I am growing and I am maturing and it's working in my life and then, if it works in my life, I can help it work in their life. So you need to feel the importance of your lesson. Remember you only have one chance to teach that group of people this week. Please don't go in there slip shot, half prepared, not worried about what's going to happen. This is the big day, this is the big hour. This is what we're here about.

W. Austin Gardner:

Teaching Sunday school is like important. So many times Sunday school teachers take it like it's just not that big a deal and they kind of like pass it off to anybody and let other people do stuff. And they're not. They just don't realize how important that one hour they have it's not even a full hour that they can teach a lesson. So be careful not to use old material, reheated stuff you haven't thought about, you haven't thought through the passage, you haven't thought through the message, you haven't prayed over the lesson. It can't be just something you pull off the hard drive. It can't be something you just snatch out of the lesson you have. It can't be just something you pull off the hard drive. It can't be something you just snatch out of the internet. It needs to be real and working in your life, that God is doing a work in your life.

W. Austin Gardner:

Now I think maybe one of the strongest keys that we have is that we would love our students. When you love the students and you love the Bible and you love God, then all that love comes together. The students will feel it and that truth will work in their life. So they ought to be somebody you're praying for and thinking about. They ought to be your friends. You ought to be concerned about them and it ought to be like this is my one chance to be used of God, to make a big difference in their life. Let God use you as you teach and work there as a Sunday school teacher. So it's important what you're doing. You feel that you only got one chance to teach this group of people this week most likely. Don't use old material. Don't use things you've reheated and, most of all, fall in love with Jesus, fall in love with the word and fall in love with your students.