2 posts tagged “teaching”

In response to Stephen's brilliant questions: responses are out of order that he asked but in order for how they make sense together:

2.) Age and Experience:  None.  I'm looking for commitment and skills, not experience.  If you a.) love Jesus, b.) have some free time and c.) are naturally or can choose to be almost anal about organization/on top of details/administrative tasks/communicating and coordinating people's schedules, then YOU are exactly who I'm looking for.  ** College students most likely have the flexibility and free time required.

1.) Both administrative assistant (AAs from here on) positions would be required roughly 8 hours per week.

3.) a.) AAs will attend a weekly meeting (Teaching Team is 3:30-5:30pm on Mondays  |  Creativity Team is 12noon-3:30 pm every Tuesday).  You will take detailed notes (with freedom to add humorous observations) and email them to the team. 
b.) AAs will meet with me for a one hour block later during the week (Flexibly wednesday morning) to review details from the team meeting/follow up with phone calls or emails that need to be made and help me make detailed plans for current projects.  Essentially you're going to help me make sure that nothing is slipping through the cracks and all projects are on schedule.
c.) Beyond the team meeting and individual meeting with me, AAs would be able to accomplish their tasks in a few hours at their own pace and location depending on the number of projects being worked on.

You would absolutely be able to count this as service hours for any number of organizations/honors requirements etc.

** One last thing, I would like to have both AAs interviewed, chosen and in place to officially start at the beginning of next semester when your schedule is still fresh and has some open holes with new classes.

So, pray about it and let me know.  email:  jludovina@midtowncolumbia.com  or phone: (803) 760-9169

Simply put, conversations are good.

Even the most introverted of men has conversations with himself in his head.  Conversation has a certain effortless progression to it.  Casual persuasion, personal stories and humor provide the perfect place for our thoughts to grow, react and reach new conclusions.  Even when you disagree completely, conversation reinforces the reasoning for your thoughts.

But I'm a little worried about our generation.

The elevation of conversation as the final authority on intellectual discourse is highly overrated.  Specifically in the spiritual culture I spend a lot of time in, conversation is growing in popularity as the only valid form of theological education.  The argument goes like this:  No person can ever fully understand the true meaning of the Scriptures.  To assert that you know exactly what the Scriptures are saying is arrogant.  Therefore, NO ONE can talk about the Bible in any kind of authoritative way.  (Rob Bell makes this argument in Velvet Elvis amongst others.)  As a result, some churches are moving to conversation led services.  Rather than have someone preach the Word of God, the congregation just talks about it and tries to collectively come to some conclusions.

Remember what I said to begin with; conversations are good.  On the other hand, the problem with the previous argument and the conclusion to replace preaching with conversation is THE BIBLE.  I'll just quote one:

"If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God."  1 Peter 4:11

The thing about the Bible is that it's going to say over and over again 1.) that we should preach and teach, 2.) that men are gifted by God to preach the word of God and 3.) that when those called to teach and preach DO teach and preach, they should do it with authority. Here's what I mean by over and over: Mark 16:15; Luke 24:57; Acts 10:42; Romans 12:7; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11-13; Colossians 3:16; 1 Timothy 4:6,11 and 13; 2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 2:1-3 and 15.  That Titus 2:15 one is really interesting: "Encourage and rebuke with all authority."  (By the way, those are just from the new testament.)