Jumping off cliffs

Why in cheese's* name would anyone teach an adult sunday school class?

If the class is covering a Bible study - well, how impossible is that? It's not as if you, as the teacher, could make up the content of the study. No, it's pretty well documented content. Content that's been around about 2000 years. Not a lot of "creative license" room there.

And you know, funny thing is, students will come in with their own ideas about the content. Get out! When you teach in primary or secondary schools, generally students come in knowing little or nothing about the material. In adult sunday school, if the people show up they usually did the homework, or at least have an interest in the material. So, this isn't necessarily a maleable audience.

No, in fact, sometimes people show up not wanting to hear anything but their own ideas. Yeah - that's the kind of environment someone should volunteer for!

Then there's the question of "language" ... KJV, NKJV, NIV, RSV, NSRV, NASV, NEB, NJB, NLT, ABCPDQ... right! That's makes it so much EASIER to get a single message across when everyone reads from different rosetta stone. Sure, all the rosetta stones were cut from the same cliff, but why'd the cliff have to be so big?!

That's why I took that leap of faith and jumped off that cliff today ... b/c it makes perfect sense, to volunteer to teach an adult sunday school class. Piece of cheese-cake.

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* As is so often the case - quoth the durnmoose.