DESCRIPTION: The Bible is meant to communicate! So how do we join God in provoking conversations between twenty-first-century persons and this God who sends his interpersonal messages via multiple first-century and earlier authors who tell stories, write letters, record trips, admonish, and encourage? How do we communicate the faithfulness of this timeless message to today's youth and adults in such a way that they relate to this Communicator par excellence and want his story to be their story? The course is intended for all who value this message, want to understand it more fully, inhabit it more completely, communicate it more effectively, and enable others to know God more holistically. It includes a focus on interpreting what God is communicating, recognizing how persons hear and learn, and becoming aware of ways we become part of the teaching process in a learning situation.

SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: Emphasis will be on what the Author of the Book we study communicates and how we through the teaching ministry can enable those who learn to become aware of relevance and implications that can transform their lives as they hear and dialog with him.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Cognitively: The learner will know more about intentions for interpreting and teaching the Bible: guidelines for interpreting the text, selecting topic and theme, designing outcomes and teaching plan.

2. Affectively: The learner will gain more confidence and motivation in studying and teaching the Bible.

3. Behaviorally: The learner will incorporate teaching insights by actually teaching with peer evaluation.

4. Existentially: The learner will actively pursue opportunities to study and to teach the Scriptures to others.

Bracke, John M., and Karen B. Tye. Teaching the Bible in the Church. Chalice, 2003. ISBN: 0827236433. $19.99.

Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. The Theology of the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN: 0521358981. $14.95.

Richards, Lawrence, and Gary Bredfeldt. Creative Bible Teaching. Moody Press, 1998. ISBN: 0802416446. $26.

Online articles and handouts, including 2 Corinthians NIV link.

Brown, Jeannine K. Scripture as Communication. Baker, 2007. ISBN: 9780801027888. $20.

Fee, Gordon D., and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. 3rd ed. Zondervan, 2003. ISBN: 97980310246046. $13.75.

Smith, David I., and John Shortt. The Bible and the Task of Teaching. The Stapleford Centre, 2002. ISBN: 9781902234212. $20.

Wilhoit, Jim, and Leland Ryken. Effective Bible Teaching. Baker, 1988. ISBN: 0801096855.

• Weekly short assignments. Late work accepted only by permission of teacher.

• Two design and teaching opportunities on the book of 2 Corinthians during the quarter.

• Final learning design focused on one concern featured in the theology of 2 Corinthians.