Keeping in Step with the Spirit: His Fruit in the Life and Classroom of a Christian Teacher

Abstract

This is a brief paper establishing the purpose and reasoning for creating a series of devotions for a high school faculty. In it are discussed the benefits of Scriptural study both in the personal life of the believer and then especially in the life of a teacher, both individually and as part of a faculty. At the end there is a review of several books and Bible studies which are available as devotional material intended for teachers. Following the paper, a series of devotions is attached which was produced in light of a need felt by this writer to produce a tool specifically aimed at a high school faculty. The series takes its basis from Paul’s letter to the Galatians. In perhaps one of the more well-known verses of Scripture the apostle sets out a list of the fruit of the Spirit. Each devotion, therefore, focuses on a single characteristic from that fruit. Following the brief devotion there is a series of questions to encourage further discussion.