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My collection of
Quotations of E.G. White on the Teaching Methods of Jesus

Contents:

1.c Aim

2.c Goals

3.c Objectives

4.c Teaching methods - i) Parables

ii) Conversations

iii) Questions

iv) Problems

v) Miracles

vi) Contrast

vii) Lectures

Introduction

Jesus used many different methods in His teaching. He interacted with people from far and wide

and from many different backgrounds with various problems. Some were there to learn and

some out of curiosity and some with no good intention. He came to seek and to save the lost so

He intended to reach every individual no matter their intention and offer them the gift of God

which is salvation. Jesus needed to capture the attention His listeners. Having so many different

people before Him, He had to use different methods.

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The following are the many methods Jesus used in His teaching.

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1.c -In the training of His disciples the Saviour followed the system of education
established at the beginning. The Twelve first chosen, with a few others who through
ministry to their needs were from time to time connected with them, formed the family of
Jesus. They were with Him in the house, at the table, in the closet, in the field. They
accompanied Him on His journeys, shared His trials and hardships, and, as much as in
them was, entered into His work.
Sometimes He taught them as they sat together on the mountainside, sometimes
beside the sea, or from the fisherman's boat, sometimes as they walked by the way.
Whenever He spoke to the multitude, the disciples formed the inner circle. They pressed
close beside Him, that they might lose nothing of His instruction. They were attentive
listeners, eager to understand the truths they were to teach in all lands and to all ages.´

2.c -The first pupils of Jesus were chosen from the ranks of the common people. They
were humble, unlettered men, these fishers of Galilee; men unschooled in the learning and
customs of the rabbis, but trained by the stern discipline of toil and hardship. They were
men of native ability and of teachable spirit; men who could be instructed and molded for
the Saviour's word. In the common walks of life there is many a toiler patiently treading the
round of his daily tasks, unconscious of latent powers that, roused to action, would place
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him among the world's great leaders. Such were the men who were called by the Saviour to
be His co-laborers. And they had the advantage of three years' training by the greatest
educator this world has ever known.´

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3.c -Our heavenly Father, in giving His word, did not overlook the children. In all that men
have written, where can be found anything that has such a hold upon the heart, anything
so well adapted to awaken the interest of the little ones, as the stories of the Bible? {Ed
185.2}

In these simple stories may be made plain the great principles of the law of God. Thus by
illustrations best suited to the child's comprehension, parents and teachers may begin very early
to fulfill the Lord's injunction concerning His precepts: "Thou shalt teach them diligently [186]
unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest
by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deuteronomy 6:7.´

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4.c -The Great Teacher brought His hearers in contact with nature, that they might listen to
the voice which speaks in all created things; and as their hearts became tender and their
minds receptive, He helped them to interpret the spiritual teaching of the scenes upon
which their eyes rested. The parables, by means of which He loved to teach lessons of
truth, show how open His spirit was to the influences of nature and how He delighted to
gather the spiritual teaching from the surroundings of daily life.´

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5.c -In all true teaching the personal element is essential. Christ in His teaching dealt with
men individually. It was by personal contact and association that He trained the Twelve.
It was in private, often to but one listener, that He gave His most precious instruction. To
the honored rabbi at the night conference on the Mount of Olives, to the despised woman
at the well of Sychar, He opened His richest treasures; for in these hearers He discerned
the impressible heart, the open mind, the receptive spirit. Even the crowd that so often
thronged His steps was not to Christ an indiscriminate mass of human beings. He spoke
directly to every mind and appealed to every heart. He watched the faces of His hearers,
marked the lighting up of the countenance, the quick, responsive glance, which told that
truth had reached the soul; and there vibrated in His heart the answering chord of
sympathetic joy. [232] {Ed 231.2}

Christ discerned the possibilities in every human being. He was not turned aside by an
unpromising exterior or by unfavorable surroundings. He called Matthew from the tolbooth, and
Peter and his brethren from the fishing boat, to learn of Him.´
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