When I stand up to teach during Sunday school I generally get the feeling that I'm the only one who is prepared for the lesson. I think I get that feeling because I know that when I'm not teaching a particular Sunday I'm not prepared for the lesson someone else is going to be teaching.
I believe in preparation and I really enjoy the digging through the Scriptures and various resources that goes into it. I'm beginning to wonder though if I'm just shoveling the knowledge I'm gaining into my brothers and sisters laps,by doing all the work before hand, only have it spill out of those laps shortly after they leave the room.
I wonder how it would go if I came prepared, but instead of shoveling everything I learned onto them I had them ask their own questions about the particular passage of Scripture and then start showing them how to dig to find honest answers to those questions themselves and corporately as a class? I don't think it would be very exciting, with all the cross-referencing, but I wonder if it wouldn't be more edifying?
I'm thinking, "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, teach him to fish...."
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