How to Prepare a Lesson

First, select the passage to be studied. Once you have narrowed down the verses that you want to use you have to dissect it. Find out: What was God trying to tell the people at the time? What is God trying to tell us now? (Should be roughly the same thing) What are we to do with this information that we have learned, how do we apply it to our lives?

If you are using multiple scriptures or multiple passages they must connect to each other.

Read, read, read your passages so that you do not stumble a lot while reading. The Bible can be difficult to read especially out loud. Reading the scriptures a lot beforehand will help you.

Make a manuscript of your lesson. That is, type out every word that you plan to say as if it were a book. Make it to where it is detailed and someone could pick it up and read it well, and gain the same knowledge whether you taught it or they were to read it. Then, study it until it is memorized. This way when you go to teach a lesson it will be easy to pull from your memory.

Make sure that you relate your material to everyday life well so that people do not become bored and tune you out. But do not add things that do not really relate. If things are not relevant, then they are irrelevant, and people will zone out on that too.

Make your manuscript, let me read over it, and where were through with our February study you can teach Sunday nights lesson around the second week of March. If you tend to teach on both Genesis and Revelation then know that there is a lot of information out there. Be sure that you have thoroughly studied what you are sharing, and you know what you are talking about. There’s a lot of details in the beginning and the end.