Quotes from “Creative Bible Teaching”
“God’s ultimate goal in giving us biblical revelation is not punitive. He desires that His word equip us for His service. Its message brings us reconciliation through the work of Christ. Its probing exposes our need for a reconciled relationship with Him. And then His Word gives us the tools we need to actually experience that reconciled relationship on a daily basis. This is what Paul told Timothy about the role of the Bible: ‘All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).— Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching
Some teachers focus on the content they desire to cover in the class as the primary factor in teaching. Creative Bible teachers do not. They recognize the necessity of teaching the truth of the Bible and the importance of strong content, but they also know that they teach students, not lessons.— Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching
If you are going to bore people, don’t bore them with the Gospel. Bore them with calculus, bore them with earth science, bore them with world history. But it is a sin to bore people with the Gospel.— Howard Hendricks, Creative Bible Teaching
Great teachers know that people tend to learn more when they are involved than when they are uninvolved. When you are talking, students may or may not get involved in learning. But when they are talking, students must get involved. So the first principle of involvement in learning is this - to some degree, the less the Bible teacher talks, the more the students learn.— Richards & Bredfeldt, Creative Bible Teaching
The old adage that we ‘learn by doing’ is true. Somehow, when we begin to live out what we have learned, we are interested in learning more. The heart is like a sponge. Fill it with knowledge of the Word that remains unapplied, and it becomes stagnant. But use the knowledge and the heart becomes ready to soak in more. Application has a way of motivating learning.— Richards & Bredfeldt , Creative Bible Teaching
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