Difference between revisions of "Studying a Passage for Lesson Planning"
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| − | *Take a moment, compartmentalize away everything you have previously learned and read Acts 10:1-3 with fresh eyes. Write down as many observations about the passage as you can. These observations should be just plain facts about the passage. | + | *Take a moment, compartmentalize away everything you have previously learned and read Acts 10:1-3 with fresh eyes. Write down as many observations about the passage as you can. These observations should be just plain facts about the passage. Try not to get caught up in previous knowledge or anything like that, just make observations about what the passage says. See if you can come up with 28 observations. |
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| + | As you can see, these approximately 60 words of txt contain a whole lot of information. For most of us, when we read, we miss a lot of information. This is not always a bad thing, after all, we need to get to the main point of the text. However, when we are teaching a text it can be helpful to carefully look at the text to see what all is in the text. | ||
Revision as of 20:06, 21 February 2019
Objectives
- Teachers will learn to observe what a passage says.
- Teachers will learn to see how a passage fits in a wider context
- Teachers will leave with a set of ideas about a passage that they can use as they look through other teachers resources.
Introduction
- Consider the following image. How many squares do you see?
To see the answer select the text between these two There are 30 squares words.
Most of us are probably not all that good at being observative. In order to be effective in studying the Bible and teaching the Bible we must learn to observe.
Main Body
What Does the Passage Say?
- Take a moment, compartmentalize away everything you have previously learned and read Acts 10:1-3 with fresh eyes. Write down as many observations about the passage as you can. These observations should be just plain facts about the passage. Try not to get caught up in previous knowledge or anything like that, just make observations about what the passage says. See if you can come up with 28 observations.
| *Cornelius was a man | *Cornelius was in Caesarea | *Cornelius was a centurion |
| *Cornelius was part of the Italian Regiment | *Cornelius is identified as "a certain man" | *Cornelius was devout |
| *Cornelius fared God | *Cornelius had a household | *Cornelius' household feared God |
| *Cornelius gave alms | *Cornelius was generous | *Cornelius gave to people |
| *Cornelius prayed to God not a lesser idol | *The story takes place during the ninth hour | *Cornelius saw clearly |
| *Cornelius had a vision | *Cornelius interacts with an angel | *The angel was from God |
| *The angel had to come, he wasn't already there | *The angel spoke to Cornelius | *The angel knewCornelius' name |
As you can see, these approximately 60 words of txt contain a whole lot of information. For most of us, when we read, we miss a lot of information. This is not always a bad thing, after all, we need to get to the main point of the text. However, when we are teaching a text it can be helpful to carefully look at the text to see what all is in the text.
