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Focus on the Lesson
© John Stevenson, 2012
“I don’t want to go to church”
“If you cannot explain
what you believe
without recourse to
religious terminology,
then it is quite
possible that you
don’t understand it
yourself.”
-- C.S. Lewis
“Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Involve me and I understand.”
C Chinese proverb
Truth discovered by the learner
lasts longer.
A lot of unsuccessful teaching
involves teachers answering
questions that students never
ask.
“True teaching is not that which
gives knowledge, but that which
stimulates pupils to gain it. One
might say that he teaches best who
teaches least.”
C John Milton Gregory
Verses Big idea?
Creative
Possible
teaching
applications options
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Paul’s
Paul’s
Warnings
thanksgiving Examples against
contentment
of true
in his
in his
false
circumstances servants servants circumstances
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Gains attention
Surfaces a need
Sets a goal
Leads into Bible
study
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• Involves
student in
passage
• Clarifies
meaning of
passage
• General
meaning of
passage
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Gains attention
Surfaces a need
Sets a goal
Leads into Bible
study
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• Involves
student in
passage
• Clarifies
meaning of
passage
• General
meaning of
passage
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Gains attention
Surfaces a need
Sets a goal
Leads into Bible
study
• Relates truth to
life
• Life implications
• Motivates the
student to action
Page 160, Richards
• Involves
student in
passage
• Clarifies
meaning of
passage
• General
meaning of
passage
•
•
•
•
Gains attention
Surfaces a need
Sets a goal
Leads into Bible
study
• Relates truth to
life
• Life implications
• Motivates the
student to action
• Identify out
of class
application
• Specific
actions or
life change
• Meaningful
completion
of lesson
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Lesson Planning
Worksheet
Pages 162-163
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Date: 4/26/2012
Location: High School Group
Target Group: All are under great pressure as they try to stand for
Christ at their high school. Christians there are in
the minority and are facing temptations.
Passage: Hebrews 10:19-25
Exegetical Idea:
The priesthood of the believer accomplished by Christ’s sacrificial work along
with His high priestly ministry calls every Christian to draw near to God, hold
fast to his faith, and spur on other believers so that all might persevere
through difficult times and situations.
Petagogical Idea:
In times of persecution students who follow Jesus must learn to drawn on
their most powerful resources – God and one another.
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Lesson AIM(s):
Cognitive
(Head)
Affective
(Heart)
Behavior
(Hands)
Hook:
Students will discover the three primary life implications of the
priestly work of Christ by doing an inductive study of Hebrews
10:19-25.
Students will commit themselves to the practices of
encouraging one another in times of persecution and difficulty
by agreeing to meet together for prayer before school.
Students will draw upon three vital means of survival in the
midst of persecution and difficulties – prayer, perseverance,
and people – by meeting together each week
• Video clip – Use clip from the film The Hiding Place
• Question: Do you thing you would have hidden the Jews?
• Question: Does persecution of Christians still happen today?
• Question: Have you or anyone you know ever been persecuted for
being a Christian?
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Book:
Content Outline
1. Background to the Text
2. Truth: The New Testament
Priesthood (Hebrews10:19-22)
3. Application: Means of survival
a. Prayer
b. Perseverance
c. People
Methodology
Mini lecture
Students study passage in small
groups and then report findings
Discussion: Students led through
implications suggested by the book
of Hebrews
Look: • Brainstorming: Students list all possible applications
• Goal Setting: Students write a goal for supporting each other
• Group Commitment: Group designs a commitment to encourage.
Took: Commitment signing ceremony. Each person receives a photocopy
of the group commitment in the mail this week as a reminder.
Group prayer: Focused on supporting one another.
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Date: 4/26/2012
Location: High School Group
Target Group:
Passage: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12
Exegetical Idea:
Petagogical Idea:
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Lesson AIM(s):
Cognitive (Head)
Affective (Heart)
Behavior (Hands)
Hook:
LESSON PLANNING WORKSHEET
Book:
Look:
Took:
Content Outline
Methodology
Leave your students with a
burning coal, not a pile of
ashes.