Adult Bible classes and how to conduct them by Wood Irving Francis 1861-1934 & Hall Newton Marshall 1865-1926

Author:Wood, Irving Francis, 1861-1934 & Hall, Newton Marshall, 1865-1926, [from old catalog] joint author
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bible, Religious education of adults
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] The Pilgrim press
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ADULT BIBLE CLASSES

too, that such a formally stated question should be some matter relating to practical life, on which they all have some ideas. Your lesson is, for example, about the gifts of the Spirit. You want to find what they really were, and whether there is anything that corresponds to them in the Christian life of to-day. The last is a question which may call out a discussion of the class not merely interesting but helpful in Christian experience. Are there not men now who are "full of the Spirit and of wisdom ?" How did they become so? Is it anything we can acquire? I should be surprised if the class did not go from such a discussion richer by some new sense of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit of God.

Don't talk too much about the desirability of the class talking. If you ever say anything at all about it do not speak mournfully or complainingly. The class loveth a cheerful teacher. Plan for it, use stratagem for it, lie awake nights over it, if you really must— though that is foolish—but do not pester them with it. Get them to express themselves as much as they will, and if that is less than you would like, strive to make yourself the better teacher that what attraction the class misses in one way it may find in another. Remember that after all the whole question is only one of method, and that the real problem of your teaching lies deeper than any question of method.

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