Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by David Helm,

entitled Three Convictions You Need to Have Before You Teach the Bible.

David is the author of How Can I Begin to Teach the Bible from Crossway.

Three Convictions You Need to Have before you teach the Bible.

Written and read by David Helm.

Confidence in God's Word.

If you're just getting started teaching the Bible, this is the first thing I want to put into your mind.

Beginning preachers and teachers and experience ones too need confidence in God's word.

Anyone who is going to teach the Bible needs real conviction that God acts through the proclamation

of His Word. Additionally, you need confidence in the Holy Spirit.

You need to trust that the Spirit can overcome any opposition to His Word in the hearts of your

hearers, and you need to trust that he can empower you to overcome any fear you may have in

proclaiming His Word. You need right convictions.

Teaching the Bible well starts with confidence in God's Word, but you also need a set of

godly convictions.

Three particular convictions are a good start.

One, the Bible is God's Word. Two, prayer is a must. And three, the local

church is one of God's greatest gifts. Conviction 1. The Bible is God's word. Having right convictions

about the Bible is essential to teaching it faithfully. To illustrate

what I mean, let's take a look at an acrostic, the word art, a author, R, reader, T, text.

If you're going to teach the Bible faithfully, you need to understand art. That is,

you need to understand how the authors of the text of Scripture relate to the readers of Scripture.

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