For several years now, we have been using the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church manuals for our Sunday lessons.\u00a0 I have heard countless opinions about this manual, the most common one being they are difficult to teach.<\/p>\n
So, the question is: Are these lessons doing what they were meant to?\u00a0 Are we getting all that we can out of them?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve just been thinking on ways that we might use these lessons better.<\/p>\n
It seems that the one who gets the most out of any lesson given is the teacher.\u00a0 After much study and prayer, the teacher is the one who feels the Spirit, grows to love the doctrine, and ends up struggling to fit the information with the time allowed.<\/p>\n
Maybe everyone should be given the opportunity to teach.\u00a0 Instead of calling two teachers to teach each month, the Education Counselor could invite various sisters to teach.\u00a0 This allows everyone the opportunity to get something out of at least one lesson a year; as well, everyone gets practice teaching, and everyone sees various ways to teach.<\/p>\n
Some people are born teachers, others learn through practice, some people\u2014hey, it\u2019s just not their thing.\u00a0 In our church, we give everyone an opportunity to teach.\u00a0 We offer teacher training.\u00a0 The manual gives you ideas on how to approach a lesson.\u00a0 And of course, we have free reign of the Holy Ghost, who is the greatest teacher of all.\u00a0 As the teacher, you are guaranteed to learn the most.\u00a0 By rotating that position, everyone will have an opportunity to soak something in.<\/p>\n
Another idea is to continue studying the lesson as a group during the following week.\u00a0 Not everyone would participate, but those who do would get an in-depth examination of the material.\u00a0 It\u2019s frustrating to prepare so much and be able to offer so little during class time.<\/p>\n
You might feel it\u2019s too hard to\u00a0understand all the information that is given.\u00a0 This might tempt you to use other material, material you feel more comfortable with.\u00a0 Or you might have pages and pages of outline and feel the frustration of not completing the thoughts you have prepared.<\/p>\n
Here are some thoughtful ideas you might consider using next time you teach a lesson from this manual:<\/p>\n
These lessons are really wonderful.\u00a0 There is a lot of information and insight in them.\u00a0 The opportunity is ours to connect with our prophets, understand them better, know what they thought, felt, taught, prophesied of.\u00a0 These doctrines are important to the gospel of Christ and must be discussed, practiced, learned, and mutually believed in.<\/p>\n
Please remember that Relief Society is not just a Sunday class.\u00a0 It is a living, breathing entity, where we are expected to understand and act on that which we preach.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t good enough to \u201cjust get through a lesson\u201d.\u00a0 We must live the lessons we teach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For several years now, we have been using the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church manuals for our Sunday lessons.\u00a0 I have heard countless opinions about this manual, the most common one being they are difficult to teach. So, the question is: Are these lessons doing what they were meant to?\u00a0 Are we getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,481,489],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relief-society-challenge-ideas","category-scripture-study-2","category-teaching","tag-rs-lessons"],"yoast_head":"\n