Teaching and learning the Bible with adults

AGORA28 February 2015St. Paul, MN

what does teaching and learning the Bible with adults look like?

• prepare

• resource

• structure

• engage

• send forth

prepare

• who are your learners?

• why are they coming?

• what do they hope to do?

• what do you hope to do?

resource

• Matt 14:31-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-14 (feeding of the multitude)

• WorkingPreacher.org (Hoffman commentary, Barfield commentary, Salmon commentary, narrative lectionary helps, etc.

• EntertheBible.org (New Testament background, etc.)

• what others?

structure

• Vella’s principles

• Bible study methods

• basic study guides (and particularly this one)

• “questions gone bad”

• what others?

engage

• people, purpose, place

• ideas, feelings, actions

• implicit, explicit, null

send forth

• “deliverables”

• where to go to next?

• how to sustain learning?

questions and answers…

more info: meh.religioused.org