Lesson 10 | Critical components
What we've learned
Course review
Take a scroll down and review what we have learned in this course. Let me encourage you to then copy this page's URL to a date on your calendar six months from now. When that day comes along, return to this page for ten minutes to scroll through the tour again and be refreshed in what you learned through the Didactics course.
Cooks and servants, not the Chef.
The recipe for the feast of God is his word. Our job is to simply prepare it well and deliver it to the table.
Don't miss the main point.
Our teaching ought to convey the central message of the text and support it as the text itself does.
Under authority, we teach with authority.
Since our teaching communicates God's word and not our opinions, it comes with God's authority.
The big context and the good news.
Know how your text fits into the Bible and find the gospel within it.
Amplications.
Our teaching ought to highlight the life decisions demanded by the passage itself.
The word and the world.
We must keep one eye on the word and one eye on the world to effectively bridge the gospel into our culture.
The Bible's style and yours.
Our style ought to be informed by the genre of the text, our own personality and the audience before us.
To the nations.
For those whom the Lord calls, the task is great, requiring the translation of language, illustrations and issues to a new culture.
The centrality of love.
Ultimately, it is on this point that your teaching will be tested by the worth-checking fire of God.
