October | 2014 | nodaknate

A Time of Application

Posted on October 30, 2014 by nodaknate

As my lecture phase carries on I have been learning so much. I’ve already gotten to teach in a couple churches. These first 3 weeks are fairly busy as we are having lots of class in the morning and evening each day. Some topics we have covered include the heart of teaching, prepping a teaching, illustrating a lecture, presenting and style of a lecture, reaching oral communicators, learning styles, giving a sermon vs. teaching, importance of application, cross-cultural communication. As we cover these topics I’m seeing the importance of the content covered but I’m seeing that teaching goes far beyond being able to systematically and eloquently present your content in an allotted time. While these are important skills I see that being able to share something that will impact my students lives seems far more noble and worth focusing on. I’m grateful I get to teach about the bible and help people understand it in ways that are practical and respectful to the bible. One major thing that we are teaching is how to inductively study the bible. We do a fun overview, then we break it down and do a seminar studying the book of Philemon. This time has been immensely satisfying I felt that in my bible school I was receiving a lot and I wasn’t meant to just keep it to myself. So now I have been able to share with others and give back to people who really need this! It’s the bible in action and it’s practically good. As you read this I hope you would be encouraged because peoples lives are being changed here, God is working. What I’m doing isn’t anything new or special but it’s something that we are meant to be doing everyday and this is living out the bible. Living out the bible is more than just teaching other people but it’s loving others and being willing to spend time even money to help and love on others. We have opportunities all around us to spread the love of Christ. We need to stop discussing who should do it, who will go to the poor, who will go to the elderly, who will teach the younger we need to see the need around us and lovingly meet this need. These are a few things that God has placed on my heart lately I encourage you to think about them and make a change in your own life if need be. Thanks for taking time to read this.

Titus Project 2014

Teaching at La Rocca a church in Zona Norte Tijuana Mexico

Titus class in session

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Back to Mexico!

Posted on October 30, 2014 by nodaknate

As you may or may not know I moved back to Mexico for 3 months. What I’m doing now is Titus project with Youth with a Mission in Tijuana Mexico. Last year I lived here for 9 months studying the bible in the Chronological School of Biblical Studies. In a nutshell we used an inductive method to interpret the bible for life change. In the school we studied every book of the bible verse for verse using the historical context as the key to understand the bible. Now after the bible school I felt that what I had been learning should be spread to others and not just kept to myself. After some time I made my mind that a practical way to share with others and learn about teaching was to do the Titus project. The Titus project is a 3 month seminar which will take 3 weeks of intensive lecture to prepare you for a little over 2 months of teaching. So I’m excited to be back and I’m excited to be challenged in this new chapter of my life God is certainly stretching my comfort zone as I get ready to actual teach others. Now I have never really taught a whole class by myself before so I’m a little anxious to see how it will go. So as you read this I could use your prayers for the upcoming months to be a teacher that is humble yet confident to teach and preach. Thanks so much for your support I’m excited to be starting this blog I hope to be updating it semi frequently on the things I’m learning, doing and seeing.

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