Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Prayer-Saturated Teaching

Great Bible teaching comes at the "cost" (I should say, "privilege") of prayer. It's like steeping tea -- it gets stronger and stronger the longer you keep the tea leaves in contact with the water.

I think it was C.K. Chesterton who said that we're not crawling to the backdoor of the palace, begging for scraps. We've been invited into the marble throne room as guests, to an eager King of kings!

Infuse your preparation with prayer about the lesson content (hook, questions, illustrations, story, application, launch), for yourself, for your students.

Pray as you teach! And pray afterwards, that God's crummy enemy will not steal away the Word, but it would be fruitful.

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