Faithfully, with a bit of reluctance

Any idea on the subject matter?

 

I no longer teach (I had been an adult Sunday School teacher) because as I aged, my physical and mental faculties have diminished to the point I can no longer respond extemporaneously to questions. As someone has said, seize the day while you can. God bless.

 

Teaching is fun in that get the human element involved!

 

JC, I marked your post "Like" but have prayed, and think your decision a "Winner." I trust it will be a blessing to many, including yourself. God bless.

 

I can feel your "pain". I quit teaching a few years ago. Have not preached in quite a few either. I quit teaching because I got disgusted with the lack of willingness of adults to put in any effort to actually prepare for the class.

 

I taught SS for many years, starting with a college class & working my way up to SR adults. I quit about 3 years ago due to problems akin to Reynolds situation.
Our class had a different teacher for each Sunday of the month, & one for the 5th Sunday, so we had totally different teaching styles to keep the variety alive.

One of the regulars declined to teach again this year, & I was asked to handle the 5th Sunday class.
I almost declined immediately, but said I would pray about it. I felt led to accept, & have not had 2nd thoughts about it so far.

Several years before my "age" problems, I felt the urge to become a "working Pastor", but fought this "leading" cause I had a completely wrong personality for a pastor!!!!! The more I thought about it, the more negative I became toward this idea.

I finally got so upset, perturbed, aggravated ---, till I said "OK Lord, I will do as you command!" I was all set to go through a whole lifestyle change, but to my surprise as soon as I made the commitment, the entire pressure of following this path just totally disappeared.

I'm sure there was some purpose from Him, but I'm also sure that the lesson(?) was learned sub-consciously as I have been unable to consciously bring it up for discussion!!!

Of course there were the usual "good job", "interesting lesson" etc, but by far the most appreciated compliment I ever received was from a retired pastor that was visiting our class. I had walked over to greet him & introduce myself & he asked me if I were a retired pastor! He said something to the effect of, "You just sounded like a retired preacher."
I wish now that I had queried him a bit further, cause I would like to know what specifically brought him to that conclusion. At any rate, that was the most morale boosting compliment I'd ever received!! Still gives me chills thinking about it!!

 

Hey, go for it. Ezekiel used prose and poetry with great impact. And he saw and described incredible events. I've never taught through the book myself, but I envy you the chance. Use the commentaries (Keil and Delitzsch is in e-Sword), study it out, add some depth so the believers have to think, and make it live. You'll do fine.

 

Great news is that ole Zec is a lot like revelation, as in n o one has them exactly right!

 

Ah, no doubt back from your "heathen days"