Response to Tyler #1

so Tyler I know I just talked to you out of class very briefly about teaching on Sunday, but I would like to go more in depth. Pre-made lessons are handy for getting out of a bind and sometimes they are great for a series. There is something impersonal about them though. It was not your passion that helped write them. In fact the lesson may be totally off. Just think about the situation you could place yourself in? going back to the personal idea of a lesson, I would like to say that when you write a lesson there is a piece of you that goes into it. It is God and your's love child(this was written in the best sense of the term). I learned a process on how to make a sermon. I really enjoy it because it helps with illness that creeps in to bible study and festers. The illness I speak of is, writing a bible study without God. Basically the process is pray, read, pray, write, pray, compile, pray, study, pray some more, and then add a nice flavorful story or experience. so the idea is, you are using the truth of the bible as you are being guided by the spirit to compile a lesson. Then just for face value and fun, you put in stories and intrigues to help people remember the ideas of the passage.

How to get to know the students better, is like asking how do i make friends? you just set yourself out there and hope you have some great conversation. over ambitious people can frighten people. So, to go and jump in front of their faces and do a dance for them would not be smart. It is all about the chill mentality. Be open, be ready and just listen to them, that is pretty much what people want anyways. You can use this mentality with the gamers and the drinkers as well.