Lecture #4- Teach Standards as Part of What You Do!

Many of you will remember a basic set of basic Bible knowledge you learned as you grew up -that is if you went to Sunday School. You knew certain verses like John 3:16, location of many of the Books of the Bible and so on....

More than ever before we need to teach these as we teach the lesson.

For example: Let's say the lesson is about Zacchaeus. As you begin to talk you can say this is a story about Jesus and Zacchaeus. Is that in the New Testament or the Old Testament? The story is found in Luke - let's name the Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John-..... There are red letters in my Bible in this story - What does that mean? - Yes that means Jesus is talking.

Do you get my drift? You make teaching Bible basic standards as a part of the conversation of each lesson. They learn as they go. It becomes a way of life.

To develop a set of standards you might think of a teenager. What should he/she know about the Bible if that teen has been in your Sunday School all his/her life?

What persons?
What places should be common knowledge?
How many Books of the Bible should that teen know?
Bible stories?
What abilities should that teen possess in being able to find chapters and verses?
Plan of Salvation-

Remember when your student is in worship it is vital they can understand the basics.

Nazarene Publishing House is faithful in giving them the "big stories" and "big ideas".
We must be faithful in helping them deepen spiritually. We are helping them navigate through a forest of information.

We do this by being intentional in how we add Bible basics or standard to the lesson.

Assignment: Report some Bible basics you want your class to know.
Name at least 2 you can teach as you talk about the next lesson. You are welcome to use the standards in the example. Turn them in next Monday and tell if you have already used them.