Just a brief reminder of the points we walked through in a Saturday morning conversation about teaching and learning the Bible with adults. (We used the feeding of the multitude as our practice text).

1. Teaching and learning the Bible with adults
AGORA
28 February 2015
St. Paul, MN

2. what does teaching and learning the Bible with
adults look like?
• prepare
• resource
• structure
• engage
• send forth

3. prepare
• who are your learners?
• why are they coming?
• what do they hope to do?
• what do you hope to do?

4. 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?

5. structure
• Vella’s principles
• Bible study methods
• basic study guides (and particularly this one)
• “questions gone bad”
• what others?

6. engage
• people, purpose, place
• ideas, feelings, actions
• implicit, explicit, null

7. send forth
• “deliverables”
• where to go to next?
• how to sustain learning?

8. questions and answers…

9. more info:
meh.religioused.org