{"id":8504,"date":"2025-11-13T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:18","slug":"out-of-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8504","title":{"rendered":"OUT OF THE MIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought of at least one more basic premise of good teaching since yesterday &#8211; and it is super basic, but in the pulpit it doesn&#8217;t always happen.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here it is: An effective teacher knows the material inside and out.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the teacher is confused or unsure, the students will be doubly so.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been said that &#8220;a mist in the pulpit becomes a fog in the pew&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best-case scenario, of course, is when the teacher is utterly fascinated by the subject matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A preacher should be utterly impressed with the beauty, wisdom, and power of Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A genuine fascination can be contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And one other premise that I am reminded of just now: A good teacher consciously teaches students HOW to think, not just WHAT to think.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This can only be accomplished if the teacher makes a practice of critical thinking in his or her own study and preparation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of at least one more basic premise of good teaching since yesterday &#8211; and it is super basic, but in the pulpit it doesn&#8217;t always happen. So here it is: An effective teacher knows the material inside and out.\u00a0 If the teacher is confused or unsure, the students will be doubly so. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-thinking","category-good-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}