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Teaching to Change Lives

By Dr. Howard Hendricks

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The Law of the Teacher

  1. The Law of the Teacher, simply stated, is this: If you stop today, you stop tomorrow.
  2. “Everyone who is fully will be his teacher.”
  3. The miracle of the ministry is that God us to be his to this generation.
  4. Most adults are initially afraid to become because their level is so low. Our task is to them , and with a little time and , it can be done.
  5. Effective teaching comes only through a person. The more you , the more you become an of in the life of others.
  6. Older people can be learners, but frequently they are conditioned learning.
  7. Some of the most exciting and fulfilled people you’ll ever meet are people who have decided to learning.
  8. You learn from the but you don’t in it.
  9. “Jesus grew,” we are told in four areas:
    A. He grew “in ”— intellectual development.
    B. He grew “in ”—physical development
    C. He grew “in with —spiritual development.
    D. And he grew “in with ”—social and emotional development.
  10. Spiritual growth should not be but with every other of life.
  11. We all come from different , and are in a different stage of in our Christian life. That’s why comparison is .
  12. Maintain a consistent and program. Understand that leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
  13. Enroll in education — courses that will improve not only your content, but also your .
  14. When the of is at the heart of a teaching ministry, no one can fully imagine the it can have.
  15. Get to know your students. Become an on the and general of the age group.
  16. The dimension is often the area evangelical Christians neglect most consistently.
  17. Our studies on effective evangelism show that the average person coming to Christ is good for only two years. After that he’s dropped all of his friends.
  18. A close friend is someone who:
    A. everything about you, yet totally you;
    B. …will listen to your most ideas without rejecting you;
    C. …and knows how to you in a way you’ll listen to.
  19. Finally, remember that the life is not worth living.
  20. The good teacher’s greatest threat is — the failure to keep asking, “How can I improve?”
  21. Kids aren’t looking for a teacher—just an one, and a one.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

A good teacher captures a student’s attention so he can direct it toward God.

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A little education properly applied is more important than much education not properly utilized.

School is a building that has four walls—with tomorrow inside.

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The Law of Education

  1. The function of the teacher is to create the most favorable for self-learning.
  2. The way people determines how you teach. This is the Law of .
  3. The teacher must and the learner’s self-activities, and as a rule, the learner nothing—and nothing for him—that he can or for himself.
  4. Therefore, what’s important is not what you do as a but what the learners do as a of what you do.
  5. The teacher is primarily a and …not the player, but the who excites and directs the players
  6. The learner is primarily an , a and a doer.
  7. Good teachers can’t be on what they do, but on what their are doing.
  8. The learner’s point, the basic level where everyone starts, is unconscious —that is, you’re ignorant and you don’t know it.
  9. The next level is conscious —now you know you don’t know.
  10. The third level is conscious —you have learned something, as when you first got the hang of driving a car and you’re aware of it as you do it.
  11. If you want to change a person make sure his changes, and not merely his .
  12. If you think about it, the people you recall as the teachers in your life were probably those who planted —and you’re still reaping the harvest from them.
  13. Don’t ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: teaching—and education—consists simply of a series of moments.
  14. But Jesus reminded us we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength, and .So no Christian can follow Christ and still throw his into neutral
  15. Create who will the process for the rest of their lives.
  16. So often the in our churches who most need to are those who seldom to.
  17. is always most profitable and productive when you can see it for
  18. The third objective people how to .
  19. That brings us back to the of never doing anything for a student that he is capable of doing for himself. If you do, you’ll make him or her an educational .
  20. If you’re going to teach students to ,to , and to —then help them master four basic skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  21. Of the two skills—listening and speaking— is the most difficult, the art and the more skill.
  22. Go to almost any college and you can’t get out of the place without taking a course. But almost none of them compels you to take a course in .
  23. is a necessary part of the learning process
  24. Teaching is both a and an As a science it involves basic . As an art, it involves knowing the to the laws.
  25. Though it may take time, once you get people over the and into the true joy of and —they can never again settle for education that’s less exciting.
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The Law of Activity

  1. Your task as a is not to impress people, but to them; not just to convince them, but to them.
  2. Christian education today is entirely too And that’s incongruous, because Christianity is the most force on the planet.
  3. The Law of tells us that learning is always the result of involvement.
  4. Never forget your . Your objective determines your .
  5. activity implies activity.
  6. So a better way to say is: Properly evaluated is the best .
  7. We learn by doing the right things. To be sure, we sometimes learn by doing the wrong things, but that learning can easily be rather than .
  8. What about adding to seeing and hearing? The Psychologists say this brings the percentage of memory up to percent.
  9. The finest way to to witness, for example, is by , not by about witnessing.
  10. When you read the word “ ” in the New Testament, you can also read it “ .”
  11. The name of the game in Christian education is not _ —it’s active .
  12. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of is not knowledge, it’s In New Testament , to know and not to do is not to at .
  13. When you give —and you should— to get your students more in the learning process, remember to always provide a of .
  14. Our students are working for the people—for their teachers instead of .
  15. Education must come from the learner. You as the teacher cannot pour it in—you have to it .
  16. We’re forever employing what I call Tank . We think, they’ve got to get all this information from and they’ve got to get it all .
  17. Don’t involve learners in activities for which there’s no meaningful .
  18. Activity that is concerned with the as well as the product—so students not only know they believe, but .
  19. If we bring our problems into the classroom for to solve, they have no of the , and we’re in danger of producing Christianity.
  20. So make the activities , and find the open sesame to people’s . But don’t stack the .
  21. Studying the life of the Savior, the greatest makes it clear that He didn’t cram a lot of heads full of a collection of .

A few years ago, the American cultural and political pollster, George Gallup, observed that, “Fewer than 10 percent of Americans are deeply committed Christians.” A key reason for this sad state of affairs is that, in his opinion, “Overall, the Sunday school and religious- education system in this country is not working.” God is ready to empower today’s Christian teachers to change that.

A child who knows how to pray, work, and think is already half-educated.

To teach is to learn twice.

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Review Quiz

  1. (T) for True or (F) for False
    If you stop growing today, you stop learning tomorrow.
    Spiritual growth should not be compartmentalized, but integrated with every other aspect of life.
    The physical dimension is often the area evangelical Christians neglect most consistently.
    The way people act determines how you teach.
    So often the people in the churches who most need to learn are those who try.
    Success is a necessary part of the learning process.
    When you read the word “hear” in the New Testament, you can also read it “ “do.”

MULTIPLE CHOICE (Check the correct letter).

  1. Some of the most exciting and fulfilled people you’ll ever meet are older people who have decided not to stop .
    A. living B. growing C. learning D. giving
  2. When the Word of God is at the heart of a teaching ministry, no one alive can fully imagine the it can have.
    A. impact B. help C. insight D. none of these
  3. The true function of a teacher is to the most favorable conditions for self-learning.
    A. direct B. create C. orchestrate D. eliver
  4. Good teaching—and true education—consists simply of a series of moments.
    A. quiet B. teachable C. disciplined D. none of these
  5. Christian education today is entirely too passive and that’s , because Christianity is the most revolutionary force on the planet.
    A. incongruous B. congruous C. sad D. wrong
  6. The name of the game in Christian education is not knowledge—its active .
    A. participation B. learning C. obedience D. teaching
  7. Finally, remember that the life is not worth living.
  8. Truth is always most and when you can see it for yourself.
  9. Teaching is both a science and an art. As a science it involves basic . As an art, it involves knowing the to the laws.
  10. Never forget your purpose. Your determines your outcome.
  11. Our students are working for the wrong people—for their teachers instead of .
  12. Don’t involve learners in for which there’s no meaningful objective.

The highest knowledge is the knowledge of God.

Education is a chest of tools.

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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

If you divorce education from religion, you will produce a race of clever devils.

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The Law of Communication

  1. The word “communication” comes from the Latin word communis, meaning “ .”
  2. Jesus takes all the , and assumes . He proceeds to break down all the barriers—racial, religious, sexual, social, and moral—to establish a for communication.
  3. The Law of Communication compels that very process: To truly impart requires the of .
  4. 4.4 All communication has three essential components: , ,and —in other words, thought, feeling, and action.
  5. If I know something , feel it ,and am doing it , I have great potential for being an communicator.
  6. We rely too heavily on alone. We’re convinced that if we tell people the right thing, it will solve their problems.
  7. The most effective communication always includes an emotional ingredient—the factor, the element.
  8. But if you really and your message, it will . You’ll use good ,for example.
  9. Not only has the truth failed to us, but it too often has failed to change our .
  10. God’s method is always . He loves to take His truth and wrap it in a .
  11. So every time you teach ask yourself:
    A.
    B.

    C.
    D.
    E.
    F.
  12. Words are ; we take those symbols and arrange them systemically in a particular order—a syntax, a grammar—and thus we have language as a tool.
  13. It’s not a word message we communicate…but a message. We’re in the life business, not the business.
  14. So communication is both (primarily speaking and writing) and (actions and “body language”), and both these forms must be : What you say must with what they see.
  15. By the way, research has shown that our account for only percent of everything we communicate to others.
  16. We take and and , translate them into words, then communicate them through speech—which requires two things: and .
  17. You need an introduction—something that will them—bang!
  18. Between the introduction and the conclusion you need in your spoken message (as well as actual —which should always be included whenever possible).
  19. A good is receptor—sensitive.
  20. involves, among other things, enunciation— so people understand exactly what you’re saying.
  21. Distractions come in two forms. Some are within the individual , and can’t be
  22. Other distractions you can usually , such as the , which no one ever notices unless it’s too hot or too cold.
  23. As the I want to find out what the learners , how they , and what they’re .
  24. brings us back where we started: The concept- - is being translated into words.
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The Law of the Heart

  1. Teaching that is not head to head, but heart to heart.
  2. To the Hebrews, heart embraced the totality of human personality— one’s , one’s , one’s .
  3. Socrates summarized the essence of communication with three fascinating concepts that he called , and .
  4. Who you are as a person is your greatest as a speaker, a persuader, a communicator.
  5. The logos concept therefore involves the of your evidence.
  6. For the teacher’s is what produces the learner’s .
  7. This trust factor, this confidence in you, is the greatest you have going for you in communication.
  8. The greatest communicators—the greatest teachers—are not necessarily the up front with .
  9. So the focus in is primarily on what you as the do, and the focus in is primarily on what the does.
  10. Essentially, learning means a change in your a change in your , a change in your .
  11. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” It’s by . A . It’s not a from without, but from within—“by the renewing of your mind.”
  12. If their attitude is , they tend to what they hear. If their attitude is , they tend to walk away from it.
  13. No one cares what you until they that you care.
  14. It might help, as you come before them, to picture each individual out there with a in his hand. Your task is to get them to take the out of their hands and lay them down.
  15. It makes all the difference in the world what you because what you determines how you .
  16. You see, God has spoken, and He hasn’t . The Bible is a revelation, not a .
  17. So is critically important from a biblical point of view. We’ve got to know the God has revealed.
  18. Until the has been changed, and the have been changed, and the has been changed, biblical has not taken place.
  19. your . The more you know of their , the better able you are to meet them.
  20. Good teaching has a : You’ve got to be willing to pour out your .
  21. You can people at a distance. But you can them only up close.
  22. Credibility always communication.
  23. One of the greatest I get from students is when I mention the I had with depression. They can identify easily with that, but not with my .
  24. Remember, most people will tend to see you in terms of you are , rather than in light of where you’ve come and what you’ve gone through.

The best learning I had came while teaching. —Corrie Ten Boom

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. —Horace Mann (1796–1859)

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. —Henry G. Adams (1812–1881)

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. —Proverbs 22:6

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The Law of Encouragement

  1. The striking may sound in the ear, and the passing object may paint its image in the eyes, but the mind neither hears nor sees.
  2. The author has never found any successful method that isn’t represented by the items in that box—concepts like curiosity, meeting , usefulness, ,recognition, .
  3. Teaching tends to be most when the learner is motivated.
  4. One form of it is what I call motivation: “Son, behave yourself in church this morning and I’ll you an ice- cream cone.”
  5. So doing good things does not ensure good —intentional or unintentional.
  6. There are two levels of motivation. The first is motivation—motivation .
  7. The second is more —intrinsic motivation, which comes from .
  8. We can see something of how God accomplishes this internal in a verse of Scripture you may have committed to memory—Romans .
  9. As a teacher—a —you want to help people develop into - .
  10. The need has become a felt need, much of your method in teaching should be exposing your students to - experiences.
  11. You motivate people by correctly their experience.
  12. Our research has shown that for effective learning, are more likely to and men are more likely to to —though of course there are exceptions.
  13. “I’d rather have my students in here and out there than to in here and out there.”
  14. Another mark of good training is giving people with .
  15. The more you put into something the more you it.
  16. When your teaching has the learner’s written all over it— when he sees that, in effect, his name occurs throughout the Book, and it’s — it will make a big difference in his level of .
  17. The Spirit of God wants to use you as his motivational tool working upon the student, while He is at work .
  18. And you are not God’s answer to every That’s what the of is all about.
  19. Once you get to your students, let them get to you, and then build on that .
  20. The is available, but we aren’t providing. for it.
  21. The key question is… you ? Because people become agents.
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The Law of Readiness

  1. Many teachers go to their work either prepared or unprepared.
  2. The teaching-learning process will be most effective when both and are adequately prepared.
  3. Do not think of the of that class hour as the point for building interest in your subject.
  4. This Law of provides the philosophical basis for… .
  5. Assignments are the warm up. They the mind so it’s working before class time begins.
  6. Remember, your goal as a teacher is to develop learners. Your teaching time is to be , not a .
  7. For creativity, you need a clear for the assignments; they must be designed with a .
  8. Thinking is painful, but it can also be when it’s under the of the Spirit of God.
  9. If students have not done their assignment, a simple solution may be to write a thought-provoking question on the , then have them read through a passage that sheds on it.
  10. Studies have shown that there’s a correlation between and .
  11. Jesus was far too to ever be .
  12. The key to Bible study: Teach people what to for, and then they can it.
  13. The more they are in you, the greater your potential of building that - in them.
  14. Create an atmosphere in which someone is to ask what they’ve been to ask.
  15. You don’t have to pull the over anyone’s eyes. Never be to say, “ don’t .”
  16. him in his chair, however—and that’s the last he’ll ask, and maybe the last time you’ll him in class.
  17. Teaching is , if you get the right picture of what you’re doing: them to your side.
  18. Finally, realize that most people don’t know how to take in class—or understand the of it.
  19. You can help people become better - by providing them with a basic of the for each class.

Review Quiz

  1. (T) for True or (F) for False
    We rely too heavily on words alone.
    So communication is both verbal and nonverbal, and both these forms must be congruent.
    A good teacher is receptor-sensitive.
    For the teacher’s preparation is what produces the learner’s confidence.
    It makes all the difference in the world what you believe, because what you believe determines how you learn.
    You can impress people at a distance.
    Teaching tends to be most effective when the teacher is properly motivated.
    The more you put into something the more you appreciate it.
    Assignments are the mental exercise.
    Finally, realize that most people don’t know how to participate in class— or understand the value of it.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

  1. Not only has the truth failed to excite us, but it too often has failed to change our .
    A. minds B. attitude C. behavior D. character
  2. Research has shown that our words account for only percent of everything we communicate to others.
    A. 7 B. 21 C. 64 D. 70
  3. To the Hebrews, embraced the totality of human personality—one’s intellect, one’s emotions, one’s will.
    A. mind B. heart C. behavior D. none of these
  4. No one cares what you until they know that you care.
    A. know B. teach C. say D. do
  5. Good teaching has a
    A. set goal B. special calling C. price tag D. personality
  6. The key question is…Are you ?
    A. a teacher B. motivated C. prepared D. none of these
  7. Jesus was far too unpredictable to ever be .
    A. boring B. exciting C. ineffective D. none of these
  8. The most effective always includes an emotional ingredient—the feeling factor, the element.
  9. Socrates summarized the essence of communication with three fascinating concepts that he called . , and .
  10. If their is positive, they tend to embrace what they hear.
  11. Credibility always precedes
  12. You motivate people by correctly their training experience.
  13. Many teachers go to their either prepared or unprepared.
  14. Never be to say, “I don’t know.”
  15. You can help people become better - by providing them with a basic of the content for each class.

When I transfer my knowledge, I teach; when I transfer my beliefs, I indoctrinate. —Arthur Danto

No teacher should strive to make men think as he thinks, but to lead them to the living Truth, to the Master himself, of whom alone they can learn anything. —George Macdonald (1824–1905)

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