What Is Teaching?

 

Teaching

“Teaching Them”
TEACHING MINISTER'S DESCRIPTION
“GROWTH THROUGH TEACHING AND DISCIPLESHIP”

 

     1. Develop teaching skills through training opportunities, teaching and discipling others in the class. 

     2. Substitute teach in other classes or in Bible studies elsewhere. 

     3. Encourage others in the class to serve as substitutes and permanent teachers in preschool, children, youth and adult classes. 

     4. Help the teacher in preparation: make copies, set up the class room, obtain teaching aids, and give special reports during class. 

     5. Spend time with a teacher to learn teaching methods in order to be better equipped to teach. If you are an experienced teacher, help someone else become a teacher by training them. 

     6. Pray daily for the class teacher and the other teachers in the church. 

     7. Be available to disciple another Christian, especially those new to the Christian faith. 

     As a Teaching Minister, you cultivate class members to serve as teachers, in your class and other classes. “T” Ministers will have the following responsibilities: 

1. Teaching -- Doing the work of a teacher, including the preparation and implementation. 

2. Training -- For those who have not taught, this means participating in a training opportunity offered to help prepare you to serve as a teacher. For those who are teaching already, attend and also encourage prospective teachers to attend these training times. 

3. helping -- Be willing to assist the teacher in various needs, such as making copies, not just for your adult class, but perhaps in preschool, children and/or youth classes. 

4. Discipling -- Take someone who would like a small discipleship group and encourage him or her in their faith. This could be a home Bible study, video ministry, or Discipleship Training at church.

GREEN REPRESENTS THE GROWTH IN OUR TEACHING.

What Is NeedMeeting?

Need-meeting

“Obey everything I have commanded”

Need-Meeting Minister’s Description

“Meeting Needs and Encouraging Missions”

     1. Be on the lookout for ministry activities in which the class may participate. Your goal is to meet the needs of those in and beyond your class. The “N” ministers in times of funerals, sicknesses, pregnancies, or other crises.

      2. To organize and equip the entire class membership for special class projects in meeting needs within and outside the church. 

     3. To identify the various spiritual gifts, personalities, abilities, desires and experiences of class members and match those to meet the various needs. 

     4. To coordinate with other “N” Ministers from other classes in meeting the needs of class members. This will be important when certain needs of your class members are beyond the ability of your class members to meet.

     5. Pray for teacher and other members of the “N” Ministers daily. Pray for all class members, both active and inactive, at least once a week. 

     6. Inform the church office and class teacher of hospitalization or other major crisis among any member of your Sunday School Class. 

     7. Look for and encourage mission opportunities. 

     Look for others to serve with you. “N” ministers are specifically tasked to match members with all POINT ministries. We always want to minister to those in our classes and church, but we also want to meet the needs beyond ourselves and our church to be a blessing to those outside. “N” Ministers have the following responsibilities: 

1. Matching  -- Getting those with a ministry need with those who are able to meet that need. 

2. Ministering -- Ensuring that the needs of those in our church and class have been met. 

3. Missions -- Looking for class activities which would bring the class together for a common goal of nurture and ministry.

RED REPRESENTS CHRIST’S BLOOD IN OUR NEED-MEETING.

What is InReach?

InReach

“Make Disciples Of All Nations”

INREACH MINISTER’S DESCRIPTION

“REACHING ENROLLED CLASS MEMBERS”

     1. Actively participate in class -- an interesting and exciting class makes a good class great and a great class even better!

     2. Greet and welcome members to class. Encourage a warm atmosphere in the class and encourage interaction among all the members. Help make everyone feel comfortable, relaxed, at home and among friends by providing name tags, refreshments, etc.

     3. Work with the teacher to plan a fellowship at least once a quarter.

     4. Contact absent or inactive members, with phone call and/or a card. Tell them something positive...give a scripture, a word of appreciation, and ask for prayer requests. 

     5. With the help of other “I” Ministers, contact all members every week. Visit in the home of each member at least once a year. Let every member know that someone cares for them. 

     6. Inform the church office and class teacher of hospitalization or other major crisis among any member of your Sunday School class. 

     7. Encourage others to work toward being a fellowship of love and concern towards one another. 

     As the InReach Minister, your responsibilities are:             

 1. Cultivate -- foster growth, make friends, encourage others. 

 2. Contact -- get in touch with members via cards, calls, visits. 

 3. Care -- take care of, pay attention to, look after, keep an eye on, be watchful, protect. 

Recognize special days (birthdays, anniversaries) and events in each person’s life through a card, personal note, phone call, or visit. Receiving a note, telephone call, or some other kind of contact can be an important way of involving...or re-involving...a class member. 

Whatever your opportunity for meeting the needs of adults, consider that what you are doing for others you are doing “as unto Christ.” 

OLIVE REPRESENTS BROTHERLY LOVE IN OUR INREACH.

What is OutReach?

OutReach

“Baptizing them in the name …”

OUTREACH Minister’s Description

“Evangelize To The Lost, Enroll the Saved”

    So, after prayer and worship, the first "Point" of ministries in small groups, what is next? Many would think Teaching would be next but actually, reaching out and growing a small group should actually being a big factor and purpose of small groups. 

    And what should an OutReach minister do? The following is the beginning of a check list that those who feel "outreach and evangelism" is their primary function in the group.

    Just as Prayer is a good thing, shown with a thumbs up" sign, the OutReach ministry is reminded to us when we use our index finger to point beyond our church, outside. 

    1. Greet and welcome Sunday School guests, introducing them to the class and teacher. Be sure the guest card is completely filled out, including phone number and your class’ name on the form. Go the extra mile to make the guest feel welcome. 

    2. Make a goal that no guest goes more than a week without a contact.

    3. Send guests a card the first week. Check to see they have an in-home visit within two weeks. Cookie deliverers contact guests on Sunday afternoons. If not, be sure an “O” Minister visits or calls them within the first week.

     4. Lead the class to participate in visitation at least once a month.

     5. On a periodic basis, have someone give a report to the class encouraging members to go through evangelism training.

     6. Lead class members to visit, cultivate, and enroll lost or unchurched prospects assigned to the class.

     7. Invite people to Sunday School during the worship service. It's simple. Just introduce yourself, remember their name, and jot down their phone number. Then call them and invite them to class.

     As an OutReach Minister, enroll people to be in your class and evangelize those who are not. “O” Ministers will:

  1.  Know -- Know the spiritual condition and salvation experience of your fellow class members.

  2.  Show -- Share your salvation testimony with the class.

  3.  Go -- Be ready to share the plan of salvation at any time. Use a marked New Testament, a witnessing tract, a napkin to draw on.

  4.  Grow -- Take an evangelism course, be willing to lead an evangelism course and encourage others to learn how to share their faith.

  5.  Sow -- Announce upcoming opportunities and needs for evangelism and outreach such as evangelism classes or remind about the importance of reaching out to others.

GOLD REPRESENTS ETERNAL LIFE IN OUR OUTREACH.

So, What is Prayer in the POINT Education Ministry

  I know it says somewhere on this page that I am new to blogging, but this has been going on for nearly ten years now. This is not your typical blog, because I (so far) don't make any money off of it and I hope you don't see any pop-up advertising. 

  But after all these years, I have never apparently written an in-depth article or series of articles on what is my magnus opus in education ministry, and that is the P.O.I.N.T. ministry. 

  So, at long last, in part because of my article in the FBC Killeen newsletter, this is how I believe every Adult Sunday School (or LifeGroup, or Small Group, whatever you may call it) should be structured for ministry. 

What Is The Point?

 POINT stands for PRAYER, OUTREACH, INREACH, NEED-MEETING, and TEACHING. Every adult class member is requested to be a part of the POINT ministry, under the direction of the POINT Coordinators.   

 Read carefully the description of each ministry and ask God to lead you into one area in which you can serve. Remember, each ministry opportunity is what Christ commanded us to do.

 The “point” ministry strategy is found repeatedly in the New Testament, including the Great Commission: Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV). 

  It is also found in the early church, specifically in Acts 2:42, 44-47

⁴²And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine ^(Teaching) and fellowship ^(Inreach), in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. ^{(Prayer) 
44}Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 
⁴⁵and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. ^{(Need-meeting) 
46}So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 
⁴⁷praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. ^(OUTREACH)

 Acts 2:42,44-47

Prayer

“All authority has been given to me…and I am with you always.”
Prayer Minister’s Description
“INTERCEDING TO GOD FOR YOUR CLASS”

     1. Offer up prayers for various needs of the Sunday School class members.

     2. Keep a prayer journal, remembering to write down class prayer requests and to pray for them throughout the week.

     3. Recruit others to serve with you as Prayer Ministers.

     4. Have each member of the “P” Team to be available for some class members to call with prayer requests, updates, and answers. 

     5. Pray for teacher and the other “P” Team Ministers of the class daily and all members, both active and inactive, at least once a week.

     6. Inform the church office and class teacher of hospitalization or other major crisis of any member of your Sunday School Class. 

     7. Have activities which encourage prayer in class and throughout the week. Activities could be come to prayer times, bring devotionals or book excerpts on prayer, or have selected Scriptures to be read or prayed during class. Have class to sing worship songs. 

     As a Prayer Team Member, help your fellow class members to make prayer a natural part of their Christian lives. The “P” Team will encourage the following:

     1. Personal Prayer -- encouraging the class to have personal times of prayer throughout the week.

     2. Corporate Prayer -- encouraging the class to pray as a group through innovative activities.

     3. Personal Worship -- prompting the class to worship God in spirit and in truth on their own.

     4. Corporate Worship -- prompting members to worship God publicly, such as in worship service, class times and fellowships.

     The ultimate goal of a Prayer Minister is to glorify God, not the prayers or even the answers to those prayers, and certainly not to glorify the prayer ministers. This delicate balance can be achieved through true humility which comes from the ACTS of Prayer: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Seeking (for self and others).

BLUE REPRESENTS HEAVEN IN OUR PRAYERS.