A Great Teacher Ignites the Desire to Learn
View all responsesI have always learned much more when I wanted to learn than when I was forced or coerced to learn. I have forgotten most of the obligatory learning I’ve done in my life, but I have remembered a great deal of what I’ve been eager to learn.
Teachers who lecture and explain but neglect to cultivate a deep desire to learn are like farmers who try to irrigate hard untilled ground. Most of what they put out runs off. Human minds like fallow ground need to be cultivated so that they can fully absorb what they are being taught. Great teachers cultivate people’s minds and create in their students an eagerness to absorb what is being taught.
Great teachers clearly demonstrate passion about what they are teaching. Passion for a subject can’t be taught. It must be caught. Great teachers are contagious with a deep and burning love for their subject matter. Students catch their teacher’s passion and find themselves hungry to learn more about what’s being taught.
People who hunger and thirst for knowledge are blessed because they will be filled. People who feel obligated to learn something are like a leaky bucket. They will never be filled.
The fact is people with a hunger to learn and the ability to read don’t even need a teacher. They will continually read books, watch videos, and search the internet attempting to satisfy their passion to learn.
The teachers that greatly helped me weren’t the many who meticulously worked through a daily lesson plan or an official curriculum. They were the few who were so excited about learning that they convincingly spoke from their heart about their subject matter and excitedly demonstrated how it inspired and empowered their life. The great teachers are the openly passionate ones!
Unfortunately, many centuries ago Christianity adopted the formal lecture format where a preacher presents a highly programmed talk (often reading it) instead of passionately speaking from the heart as inspired and prompted by God the Holy Spirit. The congregation was required to sit quietly and pretend to listen. The results have been a coldhearted form of Christianity that the Bible calls “a form of godliness but denying its power.” (2 Timothy 3:5)
Where are the Christ-followers who openly and boldly speak from their heart about the risen Jesus and clearly and continually demonstrate their passionate love for and commitment to Him? The Bible is full of such people, but they are rare today. Why? Perhaps we are relying on formal teachers instead of Spirit-led passion igniters.
It’s time that present-day Christians begin to follow this Scripture: “As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in Him.” (1 John 2:27)
When you feel like
You are living
Through a weak streak
Take a bold peak
Beyond what’s seen
And behold the
Presence of God.
For where you’re weak
His power abounds.
Hear and obey
The inner sounds
As Jesus speaks
Within your heart.
(2 Corinthians 12:10)
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