Rather than reading ahead for this class, we’ll read quotes and ideas during class and enjoy a discussion about applying them. Here are some points we’ll cover.
• The Spirit is supremely important in teaching and learning
• The Spirit converts, changes minds, hearts, and actions
• The teacher’s character teaches and also invites or inhibits the Spirit
• When students participate they invite the Spirit and conversion
• Testifying – from both teacher and student – invites the Spirit
• Asking inspired questions – from both teacher and students – invites spirit-led learning
• Writing down impressions from the Spirit invites change and more impressions
• It’s better to really digest one principle than rushing to cover all your material
• Pondering and reverence invite the Spirit
• We can expect a lot from youth, and they need deep conversion in this day and age
• The Spirit can testify of all truth, no matter the source
• Pray for the teacher to prepare and teach by the Spirit
• Specific methods to invite participation and the Spirit
Here is one of my favorite quotes about how class participation invites the Spirit to teach the students.
“When you encourage students to raise their hand to respond to a question, they signify to the Holy Spirit their willingness to learn. That use of moral agency will allow the Spirit to motivate and give them more powerful guidance during your time together. Participation allows individuals to experience being led by the Spirit. They learn to recognize and feel what spiritual guidance is. It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the five senses” (Richard G. Scott, “Helping Others to Be Spiritually Led,” August 11, 1998).
Before class you can watch this 4 minute video.
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