Most weeks, what you feel during prep time is pressure. Pressure to prepare. Pressure to come up with good questions. Pressure to prevent the silence from taking over the room. And it all usually lands late in the week when your energy is already thin. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. Many adult Bible teachers tell me the same thing: "I love teaching - I just don't love starting from a blank page every week." That's exactly where . . .

If you lead adults through Lifeway's Explore the Bible, you probably love the fact that it keeps your class in the text. Verse-by-verse. Week after week. No drifting into shallow, topical detours. For a lot of Southern Baptist churches, that's the point. But you've also seen the other side - - many adult classes feel like a lecture. A faithful teacher studies hard, shows up prepared, and then spends most of the hour talking while everyone else listens. In my view, that's u