Using Come, Follow Me for Sunday School

Creating Gospel-Learning Experiences

The home should be the center of gospel learning. As much as it blesses a person to learn from the scriptures in Sunday School, as a Sunday School teacher you bless your class members even more if you help them learn from the scriptures individually and with their families.

This book is designed to help you create experiences in Sunday School that build upon, support, and encourage meaningful gospel-learning experiences for your class members outside of class.

The best way to prepare to teach from the scriptures is to have your own experiences in the scriptures—individually and with your family—just as you encourage your class members to learn from the scriptures during the week.

Using the Lesson Outlines

Each lesson outline includes the following two sections.

Preparing to Teach in Sunday School

Before exploring the teaching ideas in the lesson outline, spend some time seeking inspiration from the Spirit about which principles to emphasize from the assigned scriptures and how to teach them. This section invites you to follow this pattern as you organize your thoughts:

• Encourage sharing. For the first few minutes of class, invite class members to share their insights and experiences, as individuals or as families, with studying the scriptures each week. You may also review what your class discussed last week and ask how it has influenced class members’ lives. (Remind them not to share anything that is too sacred or too personal.)

• Teach the doctrine. You and your class members should focus on the doctrinal principles found in the assigned scripture passages. As you do, remember that some principles are stated explicitly, while others are taught through the events described in the scriptures. How do these scriptures help us understand the principles? What additional insights do we gain by understanding the storyline of the verses? What other resources give insight to the principles? What questions might you ask that will help class members understand and live the principles?

• Encourage sharing and learning at home. Preview next week’s discussion, and invite class members to study the assigned scripture passages, individually and as families, during the week.

Additional Ideas

After you have studied the scriptures and prepared your ideas, you can explore the ideas in this section as needed to supplement your own ideas. These additional ideas include:

• Scripture references and doctrinal principles.

• Invitations for class members to share what they have learned about the doctrinal principles.

• Activities to engage learners.

• Ideas for improving teaching.

• Stories, object lessons, pictures, videos, or music.