What's Your Stretch?

Once you develop a certain level of competency as a teacher, it's easy to plateau there. You can get comfortable with the status quo.

If you're going to grow as a teacher, then you need to keep pushing yourself to improve.

Or God will. He loves you too much to let you stagnate. He loves your students too much to let you get comfortable, because they need fresh bread, not stale leftovers.

What's an area that you can get better at? Is it hooks, illustrations, managing questions for effective dialogue, application, in-between study work? Maybe you need to develop some additional skill and practice in word study or topic study. Perhaps you need to tackle a study yourself on a tough topic. Perhaps you need to teach in a different setting.

If your thought is, "All of that," then pick one -- any one -- and get started.

If your thought is more specific, go with it.

Stretch. Grow. Experience more of God and His Word.