Under the Word
A Confessional Lutheran Handbook for the Lay Bible Teacher
Read this first: eleven chapters on the teacher's calling, the text, the room, and the ordinary Christian life that holds the work together.
Read the handbook →Free resources for lay Bible teachers
Under the Word
Teaching begins under something: the text, the church’s confession, and the care of the congregation that asked. These two free resources belong together. The handbook forms the teacher for the work; the Field Guide stays close when a familiar claim or a hard classroom question arrives.
Choose where you are in the work
Under the Word: Field Guide
A Confessional Field Guide for Sunday School Teachers
Start with the phrase or question in front of you: eighteen recurring teaching problems and forty-four questions students actually ask.
Search the Field Guide →The teaching tools
- One-Page Preparation Worksheet — plan one session on one page
- The Distinctions Card — keep the lines that protect clear teaching visible
Take the method to a text
The Bible studies pair participant material with free Teacher's Guides for use in an adult class.
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