Teaching from the Heart with Style

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Biblical Characteristics of Style

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• The Objective
• To demonstrate the high priority that God places
  on
• style in His delivery of His message to mankind.

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Common Misconception
• A misconception exists that because content is
• religious or academic that the style of delivery
  is of
• low priority that there is something
  unspiritual or
• unnecessary about working to improve style.

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• What effect does our style of teaching
• spiritual matters have on the motivation of
• those who hear?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Who is the best Teacher who ever lived?
• Why?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is MEMORABLE!
• How did God communicate No more world-wide
  floods?
• How did Jesus handle Thomas doubts?
• How did the Holy Spirit deal with lying in the
  situation with Ananias Saphirra?
• 1 Corinthians 1123-25

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is UNEXPECTED!
• How did God teach Naaman a lesson?
• How did God get Moses attention?
• How did God teach Balaam a lesson (Numbers
  2228-31)?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is VISUAL!
• How did God show Peter what the Good News really
  means (Acts 10-11)?
• How did God teach His people about His Presence
  in the formation of Israel as a nation?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is UNIQUE!
• How did God telegraph the coming birth of His
  Son, Jesus Christ?
• How did God teach Jonah some lessons?
• How did God teach the Israelites about Faith at
  Jericho?
• How did Jesus teach Peter about Faith in a storm
  on the lake (Matthew 1425, 28-31)?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is MULTISENSORY!
• How did God teach Pharaoh?
• How did God teach His children in Egypt during
  the Passover?
• What methods did God use to teach Isaiah (Isaiah
  61-7)?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is CAPTIVATING!
• How did God share The 10 Commandments with Moses
  and the people?
• How did Jesus teach much of the time?
• How did the Holy Spirit teach on Pentecost?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Characteristics of Style
• Gods style is INCARNATIONAL!
• How did Jesus teach service to His disciples
  (John 13)?
• Examine John 11, 14.
• Examine Hebrews 11-2.

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Incarnational Style
• What are some other words for incarnational?
• Style that impacts is not head to head, but
  heart to heart!
• What is the Biblical meaning of heart?

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Incarnational Style
• Examine Deuteronomy 61-6.
• Heart embraces the totality of the human
  personality the intellect, the emotion, the
  will.
• The process of teaching with style is that of
  one total personality transformed by the
  supernatural grace of God, reaching out to be
  transforming agents for other personalities by
  that same supernatural grace.

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Incarnational Style
• A Model from Another Great Teacher
• Socrates summarized the essence of teaching or
  communication with three powerful concepts
• Ethos that which establishes the credibility of
  the teacher who you are is far more important
  than what you say a level of trust must exist
  between the teacher and the student this is
  character the teachers character is what
  produces the students confidence
• Pathos is compassion and relates to how the
  teacher arouses the passions of the learners, and
  massages their emotions compassion produces
  learner motivation

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Incarnational Style
• A Model from Another Great Teacher
• Logos this involves the content of the message
  John 11, 14 when God wanted to communicate with
  us, He wrapped His message in a Person Jesus
  Christ that is what we are called to do as
  Teachers with Gods Style content produces the
  learners perception

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Teaching from the Heart with Style

• Incarnational Style
• Know your students! Get to know their needs.
• Earn the right to be heard! Credibility always
  precedes communication.
• Be willing to become vulnerable before your
  students! Let people know what God has taught you
  through your stretching experiences.