The Law of

Equipping
Methods &
Maximisers

Pages 380-414

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 The essence of the Law of
Equipping is these 3 words:
“Equip for service”
The teacher should train
students for a life of service
and edification
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 How would you choose
to grow a crop?

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 Jesus spent three years training his
disciples - intensive training.
Farmers [often] train and use the
best equipment possible to get the
best harvest.
Businesses spend vast amounts
on their training budget.
Christian churches often spend
very little on training their
people.
Training costs but it is effective
in producing a good harvest
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 Equipping Method

“If you want a perfect

product, then perfect the
underlying process”
Walk Thru the Bible
Wilkinson suggests that we can
apply this principles to training
teachers - and he does in the 5
step method outlined here.

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 Illustrate
Instruct Involve
Expose
Educate Experience
Preview
Prepare Practicum
“You
“I tell “We do
watch
you” together”
me”

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 Involve Improve Inspire

Experience Efficient Encourage

Practicum Perform Pass it on

“We do “I watch “Keep it

together” you” up”

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 Step 1: Instruct

Instruct Instruction is the

first step of skill
Educate acquisition - so you
Prepare educate the
students with the
“I tell foundational
you” preparation

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 Step 2: Illustrate

Illustrate Illustrate the skill

being used, expose
Expose them to it, preview
Preview what they will look
like.
“You Most teachers never
watch get to this - it moves
me” beyond memory
repetition of facts

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 Step 3: Involve

Involve the students,

Involve they experience the
skill in a practicum.
Experience
Students have been
Practicum
passive until this stage -
they heard, watched and
“We do now did the skill along
together” with you - this is key,
make sure it is a positive
experience
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 Step 4: Improve

Improve Students have the skill,

now you improve it so
Efficient they become efficient
Perform as they perform it.
This can go on forever
“I watch aiming to achieve
you” excellence, but does
need to be monitored
for each individual.

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 Step 5: Inspire

Inspire the student

Inspire and encourage them
to continue using the
Encourage skill, they will then to
Pass it on pass it on.
The power here is in the
“Keep it fact you have
up” reproduced something -
and they can do it better
than you!
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 Equipping
Maximisers

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 Jesus trained his disciples:
Instruct - he taught them publicly
and privately
Illustrate - watching him minister in
all sorts of situations
Involve - they ministered with him,
and then on their own
Improve - they came back and
reported, Jesus then trained and
equipped further
Inspire - post resurrection
appearances, HS to train and comfort -
Jesus sent them but never left them
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 1. Train your students until
they are successful,
independent users of the skill
“As a students conviction and
capability determine their ultimate
success, these 2 factors should
determine the teachers success.”
Negative attitude: “I hate this
subject”, no feeling for the subject.
Inadequate ability: “I will
never use this subject”,
competence in using the subject is
not mastered
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 2. Reproduce yourself by
focusing on your students’
skill, not your style
Duplicating your style
builds shallow people.
Students must become
effective within their own
personality and
temperament.
Each Bible book is written
with an obvious style
unique to the writer.
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 3. Alter equipping according to
your students’ characteristics
and circumstances
For a student to successfully use
skills you have to take into
account their innate abilities -
their IQ, social and educational
background and physical abilities.
You plot your course according
to their abilities - you might
be the best teacher in the world
but still some students will not
achieve brilliance!
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 4. Increase students’
motivation by relationship,
retribution and reward
The more the student desires
to learn something the
quicker they will learn it.
Increase their motivation -
done in 3 main ways.
1. Relationships
2. Fear of retribution or pain
3. Hope of reward, pleasure,
benefit
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 5. Nail down the basics before
developing advanced skills

The stronger a foundation the

higher a building can be
constructed upon it.
Make sure your students master
the basics and then teach
advanced skills.
Remember as a teacher you are
there for the benefit of the
students - not vice versa

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 6. Encourage students more
frequently during early training
As the start of
something new there is
usually some anxiety or
fear - the stronger such
feelings are the more the
teaching is blunted.
Teachers have to
actively lessen
students fears - in 5
ways:
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 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua

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 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua
1. Promise your presence - 1:5, 9

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 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua
1. Promise your presence - 1:5, 9
2. Promise their success - you take the responsibility
for ensuring they do well - 1:2, 3, 4, 6

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 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua
1. Promise your presence - 1:5, 9
2. Promise their success - you take the responsibility
for ensuring they do well - 1:2, 3, 4, 6
3. Promise victory over the hardest parts -
1:5

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua
1. Promise your presence - 1:5, 9
2. Promise their success - you take the responsibility
for ensuring they do well - 1:2, 3, 4, 6
3. Promise victory over the hardest parts -
1:5
4. Promise success if they do their part - if
they follow you and do what you tell them - 1:7

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Give the gift of courage regularly - God did this with
Joshua
1. Promise your presence - 1:5, 9
2. Promise their success - you take the responsibility
for ensuring they do well - 1:2, 3, 4, 6
3. Promise victory over the hardest parts -
1:5
4. Promise success if they do their part - if
they follow you and do what you tell them - 1:7
5. Promise their competence will ensure
their success - what they learn will make sure they
succeed - 1:8
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 7. Reaffirm students’ value
independent of their level of
performance

Jesus showed the widows

offering was worth more than
that of the rich - freeing us
from the bondage of
comparison. Performance
appraisal is relative to the
ability of that person - not of
others.

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 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:

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 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement
3. Demonstration of team spirit and
morale

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement
3. Demonstration of team spirit and
morale
4. Extra credit and unrequired practice

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement
3. Demonstration of team spirit and
morale
4. Extra credit and unrequired practice
5. Outstanding performance

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement
3. Demonstration of team spirit and
morale
4. Extra credit and unrequired practice
5. Outstanding performance
A student works with the ‘talents’ they have been
given by God - Matt 25

Thursday 18 November 2010

 Real equipping looks at the persons own God given
abilities - and encourages on 5 levels of
performance:
1. Amount of effort
2. Degree of improvement
3. Demonstration of team spirit and
morale
4. Extra credit and unrequired practice
5. Outstanding performance
A student works with the ‘talents’ they have been
given by God - Matt 25

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 Questions
1. Consider problems you have had in learning
development - was it a lack of knowledge of the
basics, or a poor attitude? How can you avoid such
things for your students.
2. What motivates you most as a Christian, a
student, a teacher? What subject area most brings
you to life?
3. How would you encourage and hep a student
who is discouraged by their lack of natural ability?

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