Excerpt from A Word to Christian Teachers and Students for the Ministry Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ: We have great reason to thank the Lord that we are living in the world at this time, when His kingdom is making such rapid progress in it, and when so many facilities are placed in our hands to assist in advancing that kingdom. Within our day, the world, which had been for fifteen hundred years almost entirely closed to the gospel, has been opened for its reception. During nearly the whole of that period, the Bible was a sealed book, and to the masses inaccessible. Now it is published in almost every tongue, and is freely offered without money and without price. Never before have there been so many helps to enable us to study the word of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Teaching Like Jesus is a handbook for Christian education in local churches that applies Jesus' methods to make the Bible culturally relevant for today.

The typical local church has six to ten groups that meet on a weekly basis and include some form of teaching. These groups could include Sunday school for adults and children, various children’s activities, youth meetings, or other adult small groups. Most of these are taught by ordinary believers who don’t really think of themselves as teachers. Yet these believers do most of the teaching in the church. The point of this book is to help these believers realize that they are teachers and take that role as a gift from God. The book then leads them though the process of working out what being a teacher means in their personal context.

God clearly intends that lives of Christians and the life of the church should differ from those of the unredeemed. The Christian and the church should be “salt and light.” Preparing spiritual leaders who have the grace, credibility, and wisdom to effect such change demands more than transmission of knowledge. Equipping for transformative ministry requires a divinely empowered and educationally intentional experience that leads to transformation in the lives of students. Ministry Education that Transforms brings together theological insight and educational research in support of practical methods that align with transformative ends. The authors’ experience with Global Associates for Transformational Education (GATE) workshops, and the impact they have had with this approach to education formation, testifies that this is not a mere call for change, but a tried and tested methodology crucial to theological education.

Teaching the Word of God involves explaining and expounding the Word of God, so that it can be well understood by the Believers. Teaching may involve changing someone's ideas and thoughts by showing or telling someone how they should behave, what they should think on, and what they should believe. To explain the Bible (the Scripture) is to make it clear or easy to understand. To expound the Word of God is to explain or talk about it in detail. Teaching the Believers gets them established in the Faith and in the Word of God. It is a way of getting them mature. Teaching the Believers the Word of God gets them rooted in God and His Word. This book is about the teaching ministry.

Beyond the Classroom provides an easy-to-read plan for church pastors and church leaders to improve Christian education in the church. Teaching and teacher training are the main emphasis of the book. The scholar and former director of Christian education in a New York megachurch provides the AZ plan for developing or improving Christian education.