‘Watching the lights go on’

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Introductory note from Dave and Kim Field’s newsletter: What an incredible responsibility to teach the Bible every day! Dave spends a lot of time studying the Word. The Lord helps him teach in a way that is easy to understand, and applicable to daily life. God blesses his efforts as the lights come on for the students and they fall more in love with the Lord.

Dave explains his current class in this one-minute video transcript. (Click on the photo at right to watch the video.)

Hi, I’m Dave, and I’m currently teaching the course called Metanarrative of Scripture. So basically, it’s a course that goes through the Bible story and puts it together as one story—kind of show where everything fits. One thing that’s really been cool this semester is watching the lights go on for students. I love talking with students after having them see the Bible makes sense as one thing—one story—for the first time. Probably something I’ve learned as I’ve taught this course for a few years is just the importance of that. I feel like a lot of Christians know different bits of the Bible, but to see it together as one story makes sense of a lot of pieces of information, so we know where things go, kind of like a map, putting the right thing in the right place on the map, or knowing why the Scripture talks about certain things because we’ve seen it together as one story. That’s been really cool this semester.

Dave and Kim Field (Steinbach EMC) are EMC associate missionaries with Ethnos360. Dave is a full-time teacher and Kim works in the mobilization department, both at Ethnos360 Bible Institute in Wisconsin.