Technology used in Sunday School

1. What a time to be alive!
Josh Hunt,
presenter

3. Three quarters of working class children
were attending such schools in 1851

6. 1 Corinthians 9:22
I have become all
things to all men so
that by all possible
means I might save
some.

7. Luke 5:36-38 (NIV)
36 He told them this parable:
“No one tears a patch from a
new garment and sews it on
an old one. If he does, he will
have torn the new garment,
and the patch from the new
will not match the old.

8. 37 And no one pours new
wine into old wineskins. If
he does, the new wine will
burst the skins, the wine will
run out and the wineskins
will be ruined. No, new wine
must be poured into new
wineskins.”

9. It is the
responsibility of
every generation to
pour the gospel into
new wineskins.

10. Jesus carpenter/ technology guy
• τέκτων, ονος m: one who uses
various materials (wood, stone, and
metal) in building—‘builder,
carpenter.’ οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τοῦ
τέκτονος υἱός; ‘isn’t he the
carpenter’s son?’ Mt 13:55. There is
every reason to believe that in
biblical times one who was regarded
as a τέκτων would be skilled in the
use of wood and stone and possibly
even metal.
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Vol. 1: Greek-English lexicon of the
New Testament: Based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the
2nd edition.) (519). New York: United Bible Societies.

12. How to become a
technology wizard

13. Get over your fear
of feeling stupid.

14. Email
• Do a little research on. . .
–Worry
– Forgiveness
–Money and happiness
• Check out this youtube video. . .
• Email prayer requests
• Find a picture

15. Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell
you the truth, I am the gate for
the sheep.” John 10:7 (NIV)

16. Facebook
• Free
• Easy to set
up
• 1 Billion
worldwide
users (Jan
2014)

17. Facebook users

19. Facebook
• Set up a
Facebook
group
• Have a
Facebook
moment in
class

20. Facebook
• 20 people.
• 200 friends
each.
• 4000 people
would hear
about your
group every
week.

21. Facebook
• 200 people.
• 200 friends each.
• 40,000 people
would hear about
your church every
week.
• 2 million contacts
per year.

23. Facebook
• Check every
member and every
prospect’s
Facebook profile
every week.
• Comment as
appropriate

24. Calendar
• Remembering
birthday
• Scheduling
events and
reminders
• Remember
anniversary
of a death

25. Bible Software

39. Learn Greek
• http://www.teknia.com/
• There is an
app for that
• Old fashioned
paper books
• Reverse
Interlinear

42. Kindle
• Take all your books
everywhere.
• Buy books cheaper.
• Free books
• Buy books anywhere.
• Search all books.
• Shared library.
• Big fonts.
• Will read to you.
• Highlight
• Notes
• Share notes and highlights

43. Good Questions Have
Groups Talking
• Correspond with
Lifeway’s outlines
• 20 Questions
• Save time
• Quotes from. . .
– Beth Moore
– John MacArthur
– John Piper
– Warren Weirsbe
– Max Lucado

44. PowerPoint
• Key to good PowerPoint:
–Lots of pictures
• Weakness of PowerPoint.
–Does not lend itself to
discussion

51. Audio books

52. DVD Teaching
Saddleback strategy for getting
small group leaders
• Heart people
• Open you home
• Serve refreshments
• Turn on the television

53. DVD Teaching
• World-class teaching.
• Save teacher time.
• Especially useful in
younger groups.
• Best used in conjunction
with discussion.

56. Worship
• Iworship
• Youtube
• Lifeway hymnal CD
• Arranger keyboard
• Backing tracks

57. Personal worship

58. Blog
• Free.
• Easy to set up.
• www.wordpress.com
• Can schedule posts that people
will get on a certain day.
• Can include pics, videos, text,
audio, links, etc.
• People can comment.
• Great way to set up free-and-easy
church website.

59. Survey says. . .

62. 60
50
40
30
20
10
0
7
2 50
26
Parties Low Parties High
High party
groups are
103% more
likely to be
growing.
Growing Rapidly
Growing

63. Texting
• People will respond to texting when
they won’t answer the phone, look at
their email or check Facebook.

64. www.SermonCentral.com
• Illustrations
•Sermons
•Videos

65. DVR
• Your favorite preacher, any time you
want
• Andy Stanley
• R.C. Sproul

66. Podcasts
• Free
• Automatically updated
• Andy Stanley
• John Ortberg
• Your favorite preacher

67. Google
• Every story you have ever heard,
indexed and ready for you to find
• Research
• Pictures
• Elmer Towns books
• Ask your students to do the
research

68. Scripture memory
• Scripture memory will
do more to drive steel in
to the lives of your
people than anything I
know.
• There is an app for that!

69. Videos Illustrations
• http://www.sermoncentral.com/
• http://sermonspice.com/
• http://www.wingclips.com
• http://www.ignitermedia.com/
• http://www.bluefishtv.com/Home

70. Missions
• Connect with missionaries
–Email
–Facebook
–Skype
• Missions videos
• Mission trips

72. Keeping up with people

73. Smart phones
• How does your
translation have...
• Find a picture of...
• Study Bible note /
commentary
• Scripture memory
app
• Greek app

74. Physical fitness

75. Physical fitness

84. 1 Corinthians 9:22
I have become all
things to all men so
that by all possible
means I might save
some.