Tools for Teaching (Part 2)

Last week I spent time moving my family from Alabama to Georgia. After 3.5 months of being away from them I am glad to have my wife and daughters with me. So now that we have all the Branams in the same place; back to the blog and our discussion of teaching in the church. When it comes to teaching in the church, we cannot continue as we are. Teachers are the tongues of the church . Even though they comprise a small part of the congregation, relative to the number of students, what they say and teach carries a great deal of weight within the congregation. So how do we improve our teaching? The answer is time, tools, and training . In my previous post I mentioned the importance of using tools to help us rightly divide the Word of God. What are those tools? If we are to answer the question of “what are the tools?” we must ask another question, just what is it we are trying to do? The task determines the tool. I am not a craftsman nor am I a repairman. As for too