I enjoy teaching. I have for all my post high school life. I taught some life drawing courses as an "undergrad assistant" my first few years in college, and I was a ship's qualification Petty Officer (specializing in the anchor system), and an Engineering Department qualification Petty Officer (specializing in the gland seal and exhaust system) while I was in the Navy, years before I came to TWI. The Navy's where I learned how to give a lecture. I worked in the adventure game industry, where I wrote games and demonstrated them at conventions. Twig teaching seemed to come naturally, once I was a grad of PFAL. After I left TWI in 1987, I spent the years from 2003 to 2008 teaching humane letters to 7th graders at a small Christian interdenominational academy. I am currently working on a master's degree, nominally to acquire secular accreditation to teach.
Do I have "the gift ministry" of a teacher? I dunno! Does it matter? Again, I dunno. I'm just doing what I like to do.
I remember one time when I was preparing one of my first twig teachings, and I saw a verse and thought "I could really punch up my teaching if I tweaked this verse to make it say 'such-an-such'" and I even toyed with how I would present it that way.
But I wrestled with the notion that if I did so, I would be handling the Word of God deceitfully. I tried not to do do that myself. It wasn't until after leaving CES in 1996, nearly ten years after leaving TWI, and already beginning to become familiar with WayDale, that I realized just how deceitfully Wierwille had handled the Word of God.
Wiewille's deception could not have been accidental. He wasn't "The Teacher", he was "The Fraud".
A teacher with a gift ministry of Teaching, would be teaching, expounding etc the truth. Maybe we cannot determine it's veracity at the moment, but at some time it will be shown to be true.
I believe that such a teacher would also know what his students need taught and would address those needs.
A "gift ministry" Teacher would not be plagiarizing .
Recommended Posts
Steve Lortz
I enjoy teaching. I have for all my post high school life. I taught some life drawing courses as an "undergrad assistant" my first few years in college, and I was a ship's qualification Petty Officer (specializing in the anchor system), and an Engineering Department qualification Petty Officer (specializing in the gland seal and exhaust system) while I was in the Navy, years before I came to TWI. The Navy's where I learned how to give a lecture. I worked in the adventure game industry, where I wrote games and demonstrated them at conventions. Twig teaching seemed to come naturally, once I was a grad of PFAL. After I left TWI in 1987, I spent the years from 2003 to 2008 teaching humane letters to 7th graders at a small Christian interdenominational academy. I am currently working on a master's degree, nominally to acquire secular accreditation to teach.
Do I have "the gift ministry" of a teacher? I dunno! Does it matter? Again, I dunno. I'm just doing what I like to do.
I remember one time when I was preparing one of my first twig teachings, and I saw a verse and thought "I could really punch up my teaching if I tweaked this verse to make it say 'such-an-such'" and I even toyed with how I would present it that way.
But I wrestled with the notion that if I did so, I would be handling the Word of God deceitfully. I tried not to do do that myself. It wasn't until after leaving CES in 1996, nearly ten years after leaving TWI, and already beginning to become familiar with WayDale, that I realized just how deceitfully Wierwille had handled the Word of God.
Wiewille's deception could not have been accidental. He wasn't "The Teacher", he was "The Fraud".
Love,
Steve
Link to comment
Share on other sites
krys
A teacher with a gift ministry of Teaching, would be teaching, expounding etc the truth. Maybe we cannot determine it's veracity at the moment, but at some time it will be shown to be true.
I believe that such a teacher would also know what his students need taught and would address those needs.
A "gift ministry" Teacher would not be plagiarizing .
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.