Title: How Did Jesus Teach?
1. Introduction
I am meditating on the issue of Christian education. Why Christian Education? What kind of teacher was Jesus? What did Jesus teach today? I would like to meditate on the issue. Let's take a look at some of the characteristics of <Jesus' teaching method> in the Gospels.
2. Jesus Taught in Unforgettable Expressions
Language is the house of being. Words dominate a person's feelings and thoughts. The degree of vocabulary proficiency significantly affects the ability to think. In the Gospels, Jesus used a unique expression that, once heard, will never be forgotten. Even if it means the same thing, the impression and influence it gives to the listener is different depending on what kind of expression it is.
There are too many examples of Jesus' original expression. For example, <I am the gate of the sheep. I am the light of the world I am the resurrection and the life. I am the vine and you are the branches. I am the good shepherd I am the bread of life. Of course, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Caesar's things to Caesar, God's things to God. go the narrow way See expressions such as "Put new wine into new wineskins". How unique are you? You wrote a dignified, powerful, and full of vitality that no one will ever forget once heard.
3. Jesus Taught with Wonderful Questions
Jesus is a great interrogator. He is the one who awakened the listeners through questions. <Do you want to get better? What do you want me to do? Whose is the portrait on this coin? who do you call me Do you know that I have come to bring peace to the world? Do you not know this as a teacher in Israel? what do you think What did you go out into the wilderness to see? Why do you call me a good teacher?> Jesus did not give a one-sided lecture, but rather asked a question that resonated deep in the hearts of the listeners.
What do you think of one-sided lectures? what would you say The question asked makes the person who stood outside the problem as a bystander face the problem independently and take existential responsibility for the problem. Great questions lead to great answers. From the great question of <Who do you say I am?>, a great confession could come out, <You are the Christ, the Son of the living God>.
I hope you will keep in mind the teachings of Jesus with great questions.
4. Jesus Teached in Rich Parables
Jesus used parables so abundant that he would not tell them unless it was a parable (Mark 4:34). If you look at Jesus' parables, the parable of the sower, the parable of the net, the parable of the merchant looking for pearls, the parable of the king who judges, etc. Agriculture, fisheries, trade, politics, debtors, etc. are diverse. It means that Jesus' interests were diverse and that he looked at each field with deep interest.
That is what Jesus meant when he said, <Therefore, every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who brings out of his treasury new and old things. Matthew 13:52>. In other words, the disciples of Jesus must look at each field with utmost interest in society. So, I think it means that we should be able to teach the merchants in parables that traders can understand, farmers in parables that farmers can understand, and lawyers in parables that lawyers can understand.
Therefore, I think that teachers in our church today should also be able to teach appropriately with interest in each field, such as politics, economy, history, sports, culture, and music.
5. Jesus Taught Easy, Easy, Easy
The words of Jesus are really easy. From children to adults, from ignorant scholars to educated lawyers, these words can be understood by everyone. I feel that Bible commentaries and commentaries written for the purpose of helping the understanding of the Bible are much more difficult than the Bible. As the commentary on the Bible says, if the words of Jesus were so difficult, how many people in Jesus' day understood His words? If you look at the Bible, you can see that all people at that time fully understood the words of Jesus and received grace.
In my view, what great preachers and writers have in common is that their preaching and writing are very easy. If the audience respects it, the responsibility rests with the preacher. If the text is difficult to understand, the responsibility lies with the author. Because easy sermons and easy texts are the highest level of preaching and writing. Hemingway's < Writing plain English is hard work. There is nothing as difficult as writing in easy sentences.>
6. Closing story
I hope that we all remember Jesus' unique way of expression, existential questioning, colorful parables, and above all, Jesus' teaching method that he taught easily and easily.