Teaching

^{Today I read further on in 1 Timothy 4:}

^11 [d] Prescribe and teach these things. ¹²  Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example ^[e]of those who believe. ¹³  Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching. ¹⁴ Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you throughprophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the ^[f]presbytery. ¹⁵ Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all. ¹⁶  Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ^[g] ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.  

This is a good reading for me as I finish preparing the lessons for youth group for the last few weeks of this school year. I think it is so important that the youth learn from the words in their Bible, and not just from my interpretation or my life lessons.  I know I am in that place to show them how to learn, not just to teach them what I want them to know. Paul is good to remind Timothy and all of us that lesson.

LOVE YOU!