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Understand your goals and objectives Matthew 28:19-20
- We are to teach, make disciples
- Make sure they are baptized
- Teach them the Word and how to live it out
- We equip and empower believers
- Help them understand the Bible
- Help them live out who they are in Christ Jesus
- Know who you are talking to
- What are they interested in
- What problems are they dealing with
- Do they know how much you care
- Will you be able to make application from the Scriptures to what they are living
- Remember you have not taught until they have learned
- Learning is the goal and that will mean that they put it into action
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Choose what you will teach and work through with your class
- Pick a book or topic
- Be careful to gather materials to help you study
- Don’t just learn the details but how the details relate to us now, where we live
- Get the deep subjects down to something the student can learn and see how it applies to them
- Try to find something that would be how they would apply it and put it into action this very week
- Practical lesson preparing ideas
- Start preparing as soon as possible
- Read the passage at least 10 times
- Look for Jesus-the book is about Him
- Make an outline
- Underline your teaching with love
- Prepare your lesson with the students in mind
- Have a reachable aim or goal for each lesson
- Do not present too much material
- Teach one thing well
- Do not teach 5 things poorly
- Be repetitious
- Be a living example of your lesson
- Use words that they can understand
- Get a lesson goal and stay on target, don’t chase rabbits
- Be predictable
- Steps to failure
- Not knowing what you want to accomplish
- Being willing to be mediocre, average, not trying to be better every time
- Not being disciplined enough to get there on time, have prayed, studied, rested, and be excited about teaching
- Procrastination
- Not being persistent
- Being negative
- Being jealous
- Not being enthusiastic
- Prideful egotism, thinking you have arrived while others haven’t
Preparing your Sunday School Lesson
Great help on preperation for teaching!