Teaching focus on people

Today I realized that I need to adjusting my teaching style a bit. My last Sunday School lesson focused on methods of living the Gospel. I guess a lot of this comes from the fact that I’m an engineer, and I like seeing patterns and formulas in things. The focus on Gospel application isn’t bad, but I think I should build upon it.

I want to focus more on people. I want to focus on the people in the Gospel stories, and what they might have thought in their experiences. I also want to focus on the people learning the Gospel stories, and focus specifically on their needs, strengths, and learning tendencies.

One of the things I’m going to have to do to accomplish this is to learn how people learn, and what they need most from the Gospel, and work to teach them those things. I can ask people, “What was the most recently Gospel lesson you learned about, and what about it made it memorable?”

I hope that giving my lessons a people emphasis will help my teaching become more effective.

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