Apr 30, 2021
- Why?: What creative methods might you use to help your learners answer the What? of The Effective Four?
- What?: The method we teach here at Teachers of the Bible uses 4 questions—Why? What? So What? So What Now?—what we call The Effective Four—to help you teach learners using a lesson that shows them why and how...
Apr 23, 2021
- Why?: Where should commentaries fit in our study of Scripture?
- What?: The goal of Inductive Bible study is to properly interpret the Bible so that we understand the truth of the passage we are teaching and so that we can help our learners apply that truth to their lives. Inductive Bible study helps us be effective in...
Apr 16, 2021
- Why?: How do we understand how the truth of a Bible passage applies to us?
- What?: Inductive Bible study helps us to study more effectively. After observing the words and sentences and paragraphs that an author wrote, after seeing how the structure of a passage supports a point the author is making, after seeing how...
Apr 9, 2021
- Why?: When Jesus says, "Blessed are those who mourn," how can context help us understand what he meant?
- What?: In Matthew, chapter 5, verse 4, Jesus says, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Who is he talking about? Or, even more, what is he talking about? To understand what Jesus meant, you...
Apr 2, 2021
- Why?: In order to learn, we must mentally process new information. What's your preference for processing?
- What?: Closely related to the preferences for taking in new information, each learner has a preference for how to process the new information taken in. There are several learning models out there that adapt the...