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make meaning
So I like a new definition of teaching: helping people make meaning. This moves me from a lecturer to a learning-environment designer. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, p. 84.
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make meaning
So I like a new definition of teaching: helping people make meaning. This moves me from a lecturer to a learning-environment designer. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, p. 84.
foreign discipleship
What flies under the term discipleship is foreign to Jesus’ thinking. Our “discipling” is driven by the acquisition of knowledge.These days, we see that the definition of discipleship has, for the most part, become an acquisition of knowledge, hoping that it will then spur holy action in the physical world. The problem resides in our lack of understanding of our own presumptions. Roy Moran,…
make your own conclusions
Adults have a high degree of commitment to their own conclusions and a low degree of commitment to conclusions given to them by others. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, p. 83.
helping people make meaning
Teaching needs to take on a new dynamic. We need to move from trafficking in information transfer and instead become learning designers. If people won’t act on our conclusions, we need to stop telling them what to think. Better yet, if we want to influence others with the truth then why not begin suggesting what they ought to be thinking about? Here again is a new definition of teaching: helping…
a small and infinite part of a grand divine scheme
If we are going to regain momentum toward the Great Commission, we are in desperate need of repentance from the overconfidence we have in ourselves as teachers. We are a small and infinite part of a grand divine scheme. We should do our part but not presume that we are more powerful than we are. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, p. 90.
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would you like that to go?
But does it really make a difference whether Jesus commanded them to go or assumed that they would go? Within the context, the assumption of going seems even stronger than the command to go. Jesus couldn’t conceive of His disciples not going! Especially since their training taught them to go; now the scope of going was enlarged. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, p. 30.
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how to get a church
It is clear throughout history that you don’t always get disciples when you plant churches; but if you make disciple-making disciples, you always get the church as Jesus intended it. Roy Moran, Spent Matches, pp. 21.
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