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Transform Your Bible Teaching
What does it take to make the Bible come alive to your audience? The Word of God is the most important text we can teach, but it may also be one of the most confusing and complex. We need more than mere charisma or knowledge of Greek and Hebrew.
What does it take to make the Bible come alive to your audience? The Word of God is the most important text we can teach, but it may also be one of the most confusing and complex. We need more than mere charisma or knowledge of Greek and Hebrew.
With the Spirit’s help and the wisdom that comes through experience, our skillfully constructed lessons can spur our students on to deeper love of God and others. Let’s transform our teaching from adequate to compelling.
Why this course?
As communicators in the church, we want to teach compelling messages based on biblical truth, but that can be easier said than done. Only with hard work, thick skin, and dependence on the Spirit can we powerfully present God’s Word in love.
Teach from Your Heart
Because God’s Word is uniquely compelling, we can only teach it well if we are listening to God. Our students can tell when we have let Scripture speak to us. Compelling lessons come from diligence, humility, and preparation.
Construct and Deliver a Compelling Message
It’s not enough to simply open the Bible and start talking—a compelling message requires research, prayer, and practice. This course offers detailed suggestions on how to research, outline, and write a lesson true to our chosen passage or topic.
Navigate Criticism
Bible teachers can expect feedback, but we need to learn how to determine which is helpful versus merely harsh. Responding to criticism with humility and discernment will make us stronger teachers.
At the end of this course, you will...
Learn practical methods for preparing a deeply scriptural and practical message.
Discover the hidden benefits of criticism.
Develop tools for delivering a message with passion and skill.
Included in this course:
Six 20–30-minute teaching videos
from Beth Moore.
Discussion guides
to guide team conversations or reflect on your own.
18 practical exercises
to apply the principles to your teaching.
Beth begins in her first session with reflections on the compelling nature of the biblical text itself, the source of our gospel message. What makes it so captivating, and how can we do the text justice as we teach?
To transform the content of Scripture into a compelling lesson, we ourselves must be compelled by God. In this session, Beth examines the necessary qualities of a Bible teacher capable of communicating a compelling message.
In this session, Beth offers a look into the details of her teaching preparation and encourages us to remember that, in the end, we are communicating God’s truth and not our own.
Beth continues helping us know how to reach our audience so that they walk away understanding what we are teaching. When our delivery is compelling, we can be more confident that God’s message is being heard.
Even the most prayed-over and prepared lessons won’t please everyone. In this session, Beth Moore addresses the way criticism can help us mature as teachers who communicate compelling truth.
In the final session, Beth lists a number of practical tips, born of her own experience, to help us become more compelling Bible teachers.
Beth Moore
Beth Moore is a Bible teacher, conference speaker, and author. She founded Living Proof Ministries in 1994 to teach women how to love and live out God’s Word. She has written numerous books and Bible studies, including Breaking Free, Believing God, and Now That Faith Has Come: A Study of Galatians that have been read by women of all ages, races, and denominations.
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You can use this course on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
Author and speaker Beth Moore explains how to create and deliver compelling Bible teaching in this six-session course.
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Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this course range from 20 to 30 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is six sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week; for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
In its 40-year history, Barna Group has conducted more than two million interviews over the course of thousands of studies and has become a go-to source for insights about faith and culture, leadership and vocation, and generations. Barna Group has worked with thousands of businesses, nonprofit organizations and churches across the U.S. and around the world.
Barna is an independent, privately held, nonpartisan organization based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Ventura, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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