Dead Seriously.

I recently posted something of a bleg for suggestions on lesson topics and materials for a Gospel Essentials course which I have occasion to teach in my local ward. I made a couple of mistakes in the post and comments, and consequently the thread never really took the direction I had hoped, and instead resulted in (mostly) comments on gospel instruction generally in the LDS Church. The point of the post was to seek ideas for 5-6 lessons which could be taught at any given moment with little advance notice as the need arises. The basic issue at hand is that, on many Sundays, we don’t have any actual investigators or new members attending, and the course is made up primarily of recently reactivated folks, the missionaries, and a handful of others who attend for reasons I’ve never been quite certain of. On those Sundays, I don’t really have a preference for lesson topics, since the attendees have enough experience in the gospel and the Church to handle about any lesson they’re given.

However, from time to time, we do have actual investigators, and on those Sundays, I feel the need to accomplish a few main goals: First, I want to knock their socks off, so to speak–I want them to come away from Sunday school uplifted, inspired, and feeling like they had a meaningful experience in a Mormon meeting. Read more…

I have been informed that a first helping of yours truly is now available on By Common Consent. More posts will follow during the next week.

As an aside, I think it fitting that the post on BCC immediately preceding my own is the merciless skewering of a BYU student. And I thought I was mean.

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I might not be posting here very frequently for the next bit because I was working on a “special project” of sorts. The special project I spoke about was an invitation to guest blog at By Common Consent* for a week, and I’ve been writing a handful of posts ahead of time for that gig. I had planned to start posting there this week, but I decided to put it off until next week. So I’ll be around here for the rest of the week, though posting may still be erratic.

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