Its STILL Greek To Me

About a month ago, I (Travis) began what I consider to be a great privilege – to team teach Greek 4 at the local Bible college. This course focuses on Greek Exegesis, which is a fancy word for “How to use Greek to best determine meaning within the New Testament.” It is a class that I had both at Moody and at Dallas Seminary and one of my favorites so when the school principal offered for me to partner with the Greek teacher this semester, I jumped at the opportunity.

 

Because this is a high level Greek class, the class size is very small (3 students), which gives us an opportunity to really dig in and help these students. Because this is a methods class (“how to do something”) instead of an information class (“memorize all this data”), we are allowing the students to turn in their assignments a day early for professor comments before the actual graded assignment is turned in. In the subjective world of grading, I can feel the tension that teachers must face. I want to encourage my students with high marks, but at the same time I want to be honest, not being too generous so as to not press them further. I would not consider myself an easy professor and so I think that this class is more difficult than most at the school, but I don’t want our students to sell themselves short. Last week, my co-teacher excitedly said “You are lifting these students to the sky!” I hope he didn’t mean “…by their necks!”