We’ve been covering the school that every Christian should attend, and today I want to come to you with thoughts for the teacher. How do you prepare for Sunday school if you’re a Sunday school teacher? Here’s just a few quick thoughts that I hope will be a help to you as you prepare on a weekly basis.

Number one, begin preparing for Sunday on Sunday. Now, that might sound a little funny. I’m not saying prepare for your Sunday school class 30 minutes before or two hours before. I’m saying as soon as your class dismisses Sunday morning and you go to the second hour or the main service, immediately your mind has to begin to shift and prepare for the next week. We’d say that regularly around here: prepare for Sunday on Sunday. Start right away asking yourself questions. What went well in my class today? What could I do better next week? Who was missing? Who do I need to visit? Make some notes and then start working right away.

Second, I would encourage you to begin reading your passage of scripture for your text all week long. Read it every single day, and as you prepare and pray and ask God to illumine the scriptures to you, write notes every single day that you can just keep track of thoughts that God gives you.

Then I want to encourage you not only to prepare early, starting on Sunday, or read your scripture every single day, but also to come to the end of the week and really pull your notes together. Get all those thoughts that are random thoughts and compile them and prepare them so when you come to Sunday morning, you have an outline and a specific direction.

Next, I want to encourage you, before you go to the class, ask yourself this question: What am I aiming to give my students today? If you don’t know what they’re supposed to leave class with, then they’re surely not going to leave knowing what they should have learned. Have a specific application you want to give your students during the class hour.

And then here’s another tip: I would encourage you to practice your lesson in private before you teach it in public. It’s amazing how we’ll really find little kinks or problems or issues with an illustration. We thought we had it down perfect in our head, but when you start saying it out loud, you’ll find maybe you’ll need to polish it up a little bit, prepare a little bit more. So practice your lesson in private before you enter the classroom in public.

These are some tips that a seasoned teacher or a new teacher could use so that as you approach the classroom on a Sunday morning, you’ll be able to give your students something from the word of God.

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Andrew Reimers

Andrew Reimers, Sunday School Director

Having grown up in a wonderful Christian home, Brother Reimers was saved at an early age. After high school, he moved from Meriden, Connecticut, to attend Golden State Baptist College in 2009. Following graduation, he married his wife Joy and joined the church staff as Director of North Valley Publications and the Sunday School.