Making Less More

I'm frequently coaching Bible teachers to "teach less better." There are times when we're giving students large doses of Scripture, the big picture, breadth, intensity. That's appropriate, but not all the time.

Mix up your approach and make sure you are teaching some lessons -- tightly focused, a few verses, one application.

Here's the guideline I work for: I want to leave them hungry for more. I want them to be thinking, "I wish he had gone on and shared more. I'm going to dig into that myself when I get home."

Did you catch that? Leave them hungry enough to want to feed themselves. In this way you are making less lesson more transformational.

If you need some tips on trimming a lesson down, here's a good starting point.