A Good Sunday School Teacher
🔥🔥 *How to be a Good Sunday School Teacher* 🔥🔥
Being a good Sunday School teacher requires knowing *God* , yourself, your material, and your students.
The following checklist is meant to assist you in paying attention to these essential matters.
🔥1. Be Sure of Your Ground.
📌Have assurance of your own personal salvation.
📌Be absolutely and unreservedly committed to the Bible as the inspired Word of God.
📌Make sure that your relationship with others in your church is right.
📌Make sure that you have a good reason for teaching Sunday school.
🔥2. Know what You're Doing.
📌Recognize that one goal of Sunday school is evangelism.
📌Realize that evangelism is not incompatible with nurturing Covenant children.
📌Coordinate your work with other church programs (e.g., Bible study, midweek prayer, youth fellowship...) and with your pastor's sermons.
📌Remember that you're discipling lives, not stuffing heads.
🔥3. Understand Biblical Theology.
📌One helpful resource is Covenants, by Palmer Robertson (available from Great Commission Publications).
📌Never leave Christ out of an Old Testament lesson.
📌Never leave the Old Testament out of the gospel.
📌Always consider how the "already/not yet" analysis applies.
📌Always consider how the story, text, or event with which you are dealing fits into the history of redemption and into the rest of Scripture.
🔥4. Love Your Students.
📌Try to understand each student's personal needs.
📌Phone/visit absentees promptly.
📌Spend some time with students/children outside of class.
📌Pray for your students/children individually and regularly.
~📌Never~ "wing it" when you are unprepared; admit it and do something else during class time, rather than trying to teach the lesson anyway.💥💥💥
🔥5. Teach with Enthusiasm.
📌Don't hide your joy, sorrow, etc.
📌Prepare your lesson early in the week.
📌Make the lesson "pinch." Make sure the teaching in it is applied.
📌Know the point of the lesson exactly.
📌Try out the point of the lesson on your spouse or roommate (if you have one), and take his or her reaction seriously.
🔥6. Exercise Discipline.
📌Discipline shouldn't be a problem, if everything else is solid.
📌If a problem occurs, don't embarrass the offender in class; talk to him/her outside of class.💥
📌Impress on the student the urgency of the matter and the importance of the class.
📌If necessary, talk to the child/student's parents and enlist their help.
🔥7. Miscellaneous Helps.
📌Singing with your class, using any musical instrument, is excellent.
📌Visuals and object lessons (especially from the area of your own expertise) are powerful aids to teaching.
📌Memory drills, with rewards, are usually welcomed.
📌Don't rush; give your students/children time to think about what you've said.
📌Don't use class time for small talk/gisting.
📌Ordinarily, it is preferable to teach less material better, rather than more material worse.
📌Congratulate/appreciate your children/students for their attentiveness, cooperation, etc.
📌Ask your pastor to visit your class unannounced sometime, and don't ask him to pray, teach, or do anything else.💥💥💥💥
📌Whenever it is possible and relevant, stress the importance of obedience to parents.💥
📌Be a model to your students (as was Paul to Timothy).
📌Remember that knowledge is unto life.
Uncle John Jonah
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