Introduction to Christian Education: Section 5

Law 5
The Law
of the
Heart
Sunday, 11 August 13

Teaching that
impacts is not
head to head, but
heart to heart

What is the heart in biblical understanding?
Not the mushy, imprecise thing we hear of
today.
Deut 6:4-6
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God,
the LORD is one. Love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your strength.
These commandments that I give you
today are to be upon your hearts.

In Hebrew thought heart embraced the
totality of your personality - your
intellect, emotions and will.
Therefore the process of teaching is,
“one personality transformed by the
supernatural grace of God, reaching
out to transform other personalities
by the same grace.”

Character-Compassion-
Content
Socrates summarised communication
using three words;
Ethos - character
Pathos - compassion
Logos - content

Character for Socrates,
meant establishing the
credibility of the teacher, your
credentials.
Who you are is far more
important that what you say
or do because it
determines what you say
or do.
People listen to you because
of who you are.

Compassion, meant how
the teacher arouses the
passions and emotions of
the students.
Emotions run in the
direction of action.
So motivation comes out
of emotions as God
created us as emotional
beings.

Logos was the word used by
Socrates for content; as used in
John 1;1-2
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning ...The
Word became ﬂesh and made
his dwelling among us.
When God wanted to speak to
us he put his message in a
person. As teachers we follow
the same principle.

You can teach without character,
without compassion and without
content - but how would that
make students feel?!

The teachers character
produces the learners
conﬁdence

The teachers character
produces the learners
conﬁdence
Ask: Is there something you
see in the life of your teachers
that makes you think there is
something signiﬁcant they can
contribute to you?

Most importantly you
should be
trustworthy as a
teacher.
You should not be a liar.
As a teacher ask
yourself:
“What kind of
person am I?”

As a teacher your
compassion produces
the learners motivation.
If I think you love me
I will be more eager
to do things for you.
The disciples were
motivated (and drawn to
him) by the love they
saw Jesus had for them.

How do you feel
about people?
Do they bother you?
Do they challenge you?
Do you like people?
Do they threaten you?

Your content produces
the learners perception
You as the teacher have
seen something - now I as
the learner see it. It has
to become part of ‘me’, I
discover it, it is now
mine.
Good teachers have great
heart

The Teaching-Learning
Process
What is teaching, what is
learning?
A very simple deﬁnition:
Teaching is causing
people to learn
The relationship between the
teaching and learning process
is inseparable - if the learner
has not learned we have not
taught.

The Teaching-Learning
Process
As a teacher
your
effectiveness is
determined or
tested by what
the student does
as a result of
your actions.

Simplest deﬁnition of
learning: learning is
change
- a change in your
thinking
- a change in your
feeling
- a change in your
behaviour.
(Mind, will, emotions)

And we know that in all
things God works for the
good of those who love
him, who have been called
according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew he
also predestined to be
conformed to the likeness
of his Son, that he might be
the ﬁrstborn among many
brothers.
Romans 8:28-29

Therefore, I urge you, brothers,
in view of God's mercy, to offer
your bodies as living sacriﬁces,
holy and pleasing to God—this
is your spiritual act of worship.
Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of
your mind.Then you will be
able to test and approve what
God's will is—his good, pleasing
and perfect will.
Romans 12:1-2

Put the two passages
together and you see God’s
plan - you are made to be
like Jesus, not like the world.
How does this happen?
By the renewing of
your mind.
It is radical change
Then after receiving this
revelation from God you
are responsible for what
you do with it.

Where Learning Begins
Hendricks,
“All
learning
begins at
the feeling
level”

Where Learning Begins
Hendricks,
“All
learning
begins at
the feeling
level”
A person has a
positive attitude -
they accept what
they hear; if a
negative attitude
they reject it.
If I feel negatively
about you - I reject
what you are saying
as I have rejected
you.

If I like you - and if I
know you are interested
in me - you can get me
to do incredible things.
And there is also a
possibility that I’m going to
like your Lord, who made
you the way you are.

If I like you - and if I
know you are interested
in me - you can get me
to do incredible things.
And there is also a
possibility that I’m going to
like your Lord, who made
you the way you are.
No one cares about
what you know
until they know
that you care
Do you agree?

Hendricks suggests that
your need is to win the
heart of the student.
Imagine each student with a
gun in their hand - you job
is to take the gun and lay it
down - you do this by
relationship with them. You
do it by establishing rapport
so that your student is free
to interact with you on the
subject you are teaching.
You do it by touching hearts

•Tell them you will pray for
them, and will be there for
them
•Take them out for a coke,
say you know how hard it is
to be a teenager
•Admire something about
them - like shoes
In effect Hendricks suggests
you try to show you are on
the same team.
Hedndricks suggests
you cannot ignore a
persons attitude - but
you can work to
change it.
How would you
work to change the
mind / attitude of a
student?

•Tell them you will pray for
them, and will be there for
them
•Take them out for a coke,
say you know how hard it is
to be a teenager
•Admire something about
them - like shoes
In effect Hendricks suggests
you try to show you are on
the same team.

Never forget the Facts
Remember content is important
What you believe - and therefore
teach - is vital in determining your
behaviour.
So if you believe correctly - you
will behave correctly.
We believe the Bible is God’s
revelation to mankind - and that
God wants us to understand it by
studying it.

Christianity is based on facts - 1 Cor. 15
Christ died
He was buried
He rose from the dead
He appeared to certain people
Knowing the facts (in the right order) is
critically important.

Until the mind has been changed, and the
emotions have been changed, and the will
has been changed, biblical teaching has
not taken place.

How do we apply what has been said in
teaching our class?

How do we apply what has been said in
teaching our class?
We must be a person
of impact

1. Know your Students
Repeating what was said
in an earlier section.
If you know their needs
- you are better able to
meet them.
The price tag is
commitment and time!

Get personally involved with students -
inside and outside of the class. Stay late, be
‘around’, be involved, stay with them, let
them see the real you...

Get personally involved with students -
inside and outside of the class. Stay late, be
‘around’, be involved, stay with them, let
them see the real you...
You can impress
people at a
distance. But you
can impact them
only up close.

2. Earn the right to be heard
Credibility always precedes
communication.
Ordinary people get extraordinary
ministries because they have earned this
right - they are not celebrities but they
are life changers.
Win the right to be heard

3. Be willing to become
vulnerable before your students
Let them know what you are
struggling with - and what you
have struggled with for years.
Would this work in India?

Tell them how you
struggled with age
related issues.
Most people see you
as how you are now -
not where you have
come from - they did
not see the process

So time passes once again and
we must bid one another
adieu - study hard my friends
and remember that hopefully
we shall soon meet again

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