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| 1. List the five steps of the interpretation process as learned in Studying and Teaching the Bible. |
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1. Grasping the text in their town
2. Measuring the width of the river to cross
3. Crossing the Principilizing Bridge
4. Consulting the Biblical Map
5. Grasping the Text in our town |
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| 2. As you observe the text you're teaching from, what kinds of words and phrase constructions would you be watching for? |
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Repitition of words
Contrasts
Comparisons
Lists
Cause and Effect
Figures of Speech
Verbs |
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3. Give 5 Examples of questions you would try to answer while observing any Bible passage.
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What is the author trying to tell us?
What is the context of this passage?
What is the truth in this passage?
Where in scripture have I seen this before?
Is there an application in this passage? |
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| 4. Know the 5 strategy and planning problems common to teaching as discussed in class. |
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Inability to come to grips with a Biblical text
To much dependency upon curriculum
To many facts, not enough meaning
Overloading the Student
Ineffectiveness in bridging the gap |
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| 5. List the 3 myths surrounding what makes a teacher effective. |
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Have to have a brilliant classroom performance
It is possible to indentify the one best method of teaching
Good teachers are extroverts |
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| 6. Define "expository teaching" as given by Haddon Robinson. |
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The communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy spirit first applies to the personality and experience of a preacher, then through the preacher, applies to the hearers. |
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| 7. Explain what is meant by the "big idea" of a passage. |
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As expositors, we communicate ideas or concepts. These concepts do not come from us but the text of the Bible.
The big idea is the single dominant idea the text is explaining. |
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| 8. What two essential elements make up the big idea? |
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The complete, definite answer to the question, “what is the author talking about? |
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Completes the subject by answering the question, “What does the author say about what he is talking about. |
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| 11. List the 6 steps of Robinson's teaching construct, i.e. how he goes from text to the sermon/lesson. |
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Stage One: Selecting the Passage
Stage Two: Study your passage and gather your notes
Stage Three: Form your Big Idea
Stage Four: Asking Developmental Questions of the Idea
Stage Five: Formulating the Homiletical Idea
Stage Six: Determine your lesson/ sermons purpose |
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| 12. Stage Four: Submitting our Big Idea to three developmental questions: |
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Does this need explaining?
Dos this need proving?
Does this need applying? |
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