Not Just a Teacher

If you watched Session 1, you've already taken an honest look at where your teaching has stalled. This session is where you discover what it's actually stalled toward becoming.

Jesus didn't tell His disciples to go and deliver information to the nations. He told them to go and make disciples, teaching them to obey everything He had commanded. That distinction matters more than it might first appear. Information transfer and life transformation are not the same goal, and they don't happen through the same methods.

This session introduces four roles that together make up genuine disciple-making: Model, Coach, Catalyst, and Teacher.

As a Model, your students are watching how you handle uncertainty, how you admit what you don't know, and how you apply Scripture to your own real decisions, whether you intend to teach that or not. As a Coach, you help students actually practice the skills of discipleship: studying a passage, asking good questions, applying truth to life. As a Catalyst, you shape the culture of your classroom on purpose, rather than letting it form by accident. And as a Teacher, you present truth clearly and accurately — the role you might have been trained for, and the only one of the four that isn't enough on its own.

You'll walk away from this session able to name which of these four roles feels most natural to you, and which one your students are quietly going without.

You'll also learn to tell the difference between a disciple and a consumer and take an honest look at whether your class is currently producing more of one than the other.

In Session 3, you'll take everything you've learned about becoming a disciple-maker and ground it in a realistic understanding of who you are and what you can sustain — because faithful disciple-making has to be sustainable to last.

Your workbook has everything you need: a reflection worksheet to help you examine your current approach through the lens of these four roles, and an application worksheet with tiered action steps, including a full framework for building a discipleship pathway that moves your students from spiritual infancy to maturity.

You are not just a teacher. This session shows you what you actually are.

Helpful to know: The Discipleship Pathway framework introduced in this session has a full reusable planning template in your workbook's reference section. It's designed to be copied and reused every time you take on a new class or plan a new year of teaching.