Teaching Like Jesus: A Practical Guide to Christian Education in Your Church - Softcover

Tolbert, La Verne

 
9780310223474: Teaching Like Jesus: A Practical Guide to Christian Education in Your Church
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0310223474 ISBN 13: 9780310223474
Verlag: Study Resources, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

As a teacher, you long to help others do more than understand the Bible. You want them to experience its relevance and power for their lives. Teaching like Jesus is the answer! This commonsense guide offers examples of Jesus' teaching style from the Gospels, then shows how you can make these principles work for you -- regardless of what age group or ethnic background you're dealing with. Using a proven, four-step plan, Teaching Like Jesus gives you action steps, summaries, and other practical resources that will make your classroom a lively place to learn and apply the lessons so vitally important for transforming lives and nurturing disciples. You'll learn to think in terms of "see, hear, and do" in your lesson plans. And you'll find sample plans for age groups and cultures ranging from African-American preschoolers to Chinese married couples.

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La Verne Tolbert, PhD (Talbot School of Theology) is the founder of Teaching Like Jesus Ministries, (Pasadena, CA) which is dedicated to equipping pastors, teachers, parents and volunteers in Christian education, children's ministry and youth/young adult ministry. A sought after speaker, Dr. Tolbert is an adjunct professor at Biola University and Haggard School of Theology/Azusa Pacific University. She's been twice nominated by students for Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

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As a teacher, you long to help others do more than understand the Bible. You want them to experience its relevance and power for their lives. Teaching like Jesus is the answer! This commonsense guide offers examples of Jesus' teaching style from the Gospels, then shows how you can make these principles work for you -- regardless of what age group or ethnic background you're dealing with. Using a proven, four-step plan, Teaching Like Jesus gives you action steps, summaries, and other practical resources that will make your classroom a lively place to learn and apply the lessons so vitally important for transforming lives and nurturing disciples. You'll learn to think in terms of "see, hear, and do" in your lesson plans. And you'll find sample plans for age groups and cultures ranging from African-American preschoolers to Chinese married couples.

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Teaching is our ministry. Jesus is our model. People are our passion.Transformed lives are our product. And heaven is our goal.This is the essence of Christian education.My journey into the ministry of teaching in the local church isactually rooted in my childhood. My hero---my dad---was our pastor.As the dutiful daughter, I assumed the task of teaching Sundayschool to our handful of children, training the teachers, and givingleadership to our youth ministry.Ours was a very small church, a storefront to be exact, just twoblocks from 125th Street in New York City. Dad was an evangelistat heart, and he was creative about building a congregation. He hadrigged a loudspeaker to the street outside and connected it to thepulpit microphone so that passersby could hear the preaching.An additional benefit of our loudspeaker system was thatpeople on the sidewalks could also hear the choir, which my motherdirected. Admittedly, ours was a small choir, but under her tutelagewe sounded as voluminous as any mass choir, and in choir com-petitionswe either won or came in second.Grandmother knew how to pray. 'It's me again, Lord,' was thepersonal familiarity with which she addressed her God. And shecould sing. Her operatic voice had been featured on the RefugeTemple radio program, and although she no longer performed, herpraises bellowed from the pews.Mother Inniss, as she was lovingly known, was ever the faithfulmother-in-law. She had left the glamour of her thousand-memberWhat Is Christian Education?A Philosophy of MinistryAnd the things which you have heard fromme in the presence of many witnesses, theseentrust to faithful men, who will be able toteach others also.2 Timothy 2:2 NASBchurch home to help her son-in-law pioneer his ministry. She passedher musical talent on to her daughters, Leanore, Lorraine, and Esther,who were known as the Inniss Sisters. And my mother, Leanore,conveyed all that she had learned to the choir. So the combinationof a preaching-teaching ministry coupled with good ol' gospel musicpromised to be an excellent foundation for the building of a church.But it was hard work, and despite the influx of new members,the congregation never grew beyond a few handfuls of dedicatedpeople. If success is measured in numbers, then the impact of ourlittle church is questionable. But if success is measured by changedlives, what a crown Daddy received when he saw Jesus face-to-face!Because we were small, losing a member was major. Perhapsthe biggest exodus came when one of the single women in ourchurch had become pregnant.The newly converted wallowed inrighteous indignation. They demanded that my father throw thisyoung woman out of the church. His calm response came in theform of a question: 'Why would I throw her out now when sheneeds us the most?' Dad's sensitive, compassionate ability toembrace those who were suffering emanated from his own life soovershadowed with pain and disappointment. Like Jesus, my fatherchose understanding rather than condemnation.My dad's passion was to see his members 'set free.' Sister Gadson,for example, had a phobia of riding in cars and busses. She wasterrified at the thought. Consequently, she never traveled beyondwalking distance of her apartment in the projects. But Dad was convincedof the reality of Scripture, 'If the Son sets you free, you willbe free indeed' (John 8:36).'Get in the car,' he demanded one day. 'No, pastor,' SisterGadson meekly refused. But because of her respect for him, sheeventually obliged. Dad drove her and her husband around Manhattan,and she loved it! The fear of traveling was gone.________Entering the MinistryPersonally, I had no intentions of entering the ministry. In fact, I hadpromised myself that I would never marry a pastor. I had no illusionsabout the work involved. Up close, the demands of pastoring seemedoverwhelming.On call day and night, Dad was often summoned from sleep toan emergency at the hospital, or to a home to calm disputes, or to the jail to help a member's child who was in trouble. There never seemed time for him to really rest. On many nights after a full day of hard physical labor as a carpenter, Dad would shower, change clothes, and drive from New Rochelle to Manhattan to teach Bibleclasses or to play the piano or organ during choir rehearsal or toconduct meetings.A Bible school graduate, Dad's preaching and teaching style wasexegetical. He taught what the Scriptures said and then applied themto today. Always, Dad ministered with his whole heart. I came to lovethe Lord dearly and trust him completely because of the absolute faiththat my father placed in his Savior.I taught Sunday school. Soon I became frustrated with the curriculumavailable. Here we were teaching in a one-room church withseveral classes occurring simultaneously. These children lived in theinner city in tall buildings and walked through snow to school. Butthe pictures on the covers of most Sunday school material featuredlovely country homes with picket fences and rosy children with smilingfaces. They resembled no one in our congregation. Out of frustration,I began writing and developing our own lessons. Little did Irealize that I was in God's preparatory school.After a 10-year stint on Madison Avenue as a magazine editor,God's call on my life began to materialize. Although I had reached thetop and had experienced tremendous success, I felt empty inside. Allof the hard work and all of the extra hours struggling to 'make it' didnot produce the fulfillment it had promised.One Sunday, my brother, Elder Allen Powlis, preached a sermonfrom Mark 11:22, 'Have faith in God.' It haunted me. Of course I hadfaith in God! I was raised in a Christian home, accepted Christ as mySavior, was baptized according to Scripture, taught Sunday school,sang in the choir, worked with the youth, and served on the Pastor's

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Verlag
Study Resources
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0310223474
ISBN 13 
9780310223474
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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