1. Law 5
The Law
of the
Heart

2. Teaching that
impacts is not
head to head, but
heart to heart

3. What is the heart in biblical understanding?
Not the mushy, imprecise thing we hear of
today.
Deut 6:4-6
...love God with all your
heart...commandments...are to be upon
your heart

4. In Hebrew thought heart embraced the
totality of your personality - your intellect,
emotions and will.
Therefor the process of teaching is,
“one personality transformed by the
supernatural grace of God, reaching out to
transform other personalities by the same
grace.”

5. Character-Compassion-
Content
Socrates summarised communication
using three words;
Ethos - character
Pathos - compassion
Logos - content

6. Character-Compassion-
Content
Socrates summarised communication
using three words;
Ethos - character
Pathos - compassion
Logos - content

7. Ethos for Socrates, meant
establishing the credibility of
the teacher, your credentials.
Who you are is far more
important that what you say
or do because it
determines what you say
or do.
People listen to you because
of who you are. People must
trust you - out of this they
listen to you.

8. Pathos, or compassion,
meant how the teacher
arouses the passions of the
students and massages
their emotions.
Emotions run in the
direction of action.
So motivation comes out
of emotions as God
created us as emotional
beings.

9. Logos was the word used by Socrates for
content; as used in John 1;1-2
1In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was
God. He was with God in the
beginning...The Word became flesh and
made his dwelling among us.

10. When God wanted to speak to us he put
his message in a person. As teachers we
follow the same principle.
Within this the idea of logos requires a
gathering of evidence, helping us to engage
the mind and gives understanding. It give sa
reason for actions you want students to
take so that they can see how logical and
reasonable the action is

11. You can teach without character, without
compassion and without content - but how
would that make students feel?!
The teachers character produces
the learners confidence
[Hopefully there will] be something you
see in the life of the teacher that makes
you think there is something significant
the teacher can contribute to them

12. Most importantly you
should be
trustworthy as a
teacher.
You should not be a liar.
Trust is essential in
good communication.
As a teacher as
yourself:
“What kind of
person am I?”

13. As a teacher your
compassion produces
the learners motivation.
If I think you love me I
will be more eager to do
things for you.
The disciples were
motivated (and drawn to
him) by the love they
saw Jesus had for them.

14. How do you feel about
people?
Do they bother you?
Do they challenge you?
Do you like people?
Do they threaten you?

15. Your content produces
the learners perception
You as the teacher have
seen something - now I as
the learner see it. It has
to become part of ‘me’, I
discover it, it is now
mine.
Good teachers have great
heart

16. Your content produces
the learners perception
You as the teacher have
seen something - now I as
the learner see it. It has
to become part of ‘me’, I
discover it, it is now
mine.
Good teachers have great
heart

17. Teaching that
impacts is not
head to head, but
heart to heart

18. The Teaching-Learning
Process
What is teaching, what is learning?
Simplest definition: Teaching is causing
people to learn
The relationship between the teaching and
learning process is inseparable - if the
learner as not learned we have not taught.
Remember: teaching is what you do -
learning is what the student does.

19. As a teacher your effectiveness is
determined or tested by what the student
does as a result of your actions.

20. Simplest definition of
learning: learning is
change
Essentially this is; a change in
your thinking, a change in
your feeling, a change in
your behaviour. (Mind,
will, emotions)

21. And we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love him, who
have been called according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the
likeness of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:28-29

22. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is
your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not
conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is—his good,
pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:1-2

23. Put the two passages
together and you see
God’s plan - you are
made to be like Jesus,
not like the world.
How does this
happen?
By the renewing
of your mind.
It is radical change

24. Then after receiving this revelation from
God you are responsible for what you do
with it.

25. Where Learning Begins
Hendricks (p.90),
“All learning
begins at the
feeling level.”

26. A person has a +ve attitude - they accept
what they hear; if a -ve attitude they reject it.
If I feel -vely about you - I reject what you
are saying as I have rejected you.

27. If I like you - and if I
know you are interested
in me - you can get me
to do incredible things.
And there is also a
possibility I’m going to like
your Lord, who made you
the way you are.

28. No one cares
If I like you - and if I
about what you
know you are interested
in me - you can get me
know until they
to do incredible things.
And there is also a
possibility I’m going to like
know that you
your Lord, who made you
the way you are.
care - agree?

29. Hendricks suggests that your need is
to win the heart of the student.
Imagine each student with a gun in
their hand - you job is to take the
gun and lay it down - you do this by
relationship with them. You do it by
establishing rapport so that your
student is free to interact with you
on the subject you are teaching.
You do it by heart

30. Hendricks suggests that your need is
to win the heart of the student.
Imagine each student with a gun in
their hand - you job is to take the
gun and lay it down - you do this by
relationship with them. You do it by
establishing rapport so that your
student is free to interact with you
on the subject you are teaching.
You do it by heart

31. Hendricks suggests that your need is
to win the heart of the student.
Imagine each student with a gun in
their hand - you job is to take the
gun and lay it down - you do this by
relationship with them. You do it by
establishing rapport so that your
student is free to interact with you
on the subject you are teaching.
You do it by heart

32. Hedndricks suggests you cannot ignore a
persons attitude - but you can work to
change it...
•Tell them you will pray for them, and will
be there for them
•Take them out for a coke, say you know
how hard it is to be a teenager
•Admire something about them - like shoes
In effect Hendricks suggests you try to
show you are on the same team.

33. Teaching that
impacts is not
head to head, but
heart to heart

34. Never forget the Facts
Remember content is important
What you believe - and
therefore teach - is vital in
determining your behaviour.
So if you believe correctly - you
will behave correctly.
We believe the Bible is God’s
revelation to mankind - and that
God wants us to understand it
by studying it.

35. Christianity is based on facts - 1 Cor. 15
Christ died
He was buried
He rose from the dead
He appeared to certain people
Knowing the facts (in the right order) is
critically important.

36. Until the mind has been changed, and the
emotions have been changed, and the will
has been changed, biblical teaching has not
taken place.

37. Be a Person of Impact
So how do we apply
what has been said into
our teaching in class?

38. 1. Know your Students
Repeating what was said
in an earlier section.
If you know their needs
- you are better able to
meet them.
The price tag is
commitment and time!

39. Get personally involved with students -
inside and outside of the class. Stay late, be
‘around’, be involved, stay with them, let
them see the real you...

40. Get personally involved with students -
You can impress
inside and outside of the class. Stay late, be
‘around’, be involved, stay with them, let
people at a
them see the real you...
distance. But you
can impact them
only up close.

41. 2. Earn the right to be heard
Credibility always precedes
communication.
Ordinary people get
extraordinary ministries
because they have earned this
right - they are not celebrities
but they are life changers.
Win the right to be heard

42. 3. Be willing to become
vulnerable before your students
Let them know what you
are struggling with - and
what you have struggled
with for years.
Would this work in India?

43. Tell them how you
struggled with age
related issues.
Most people see you
as how you are now -
not where you have
come from - they did
not see the process

44. Tell them how you
struggled with age
related issues.
Most people see you
as how you are now -
not where you have
come from - they did
not see the process

45. Teaching that
impacts is not
head to head, but
heart to heart