Failure in this area is a critical matter, and every teacher who ignores this rule of subject relevance is sure to reap an unwanted harvest of classroom apathy. From the field of secular education, there are plenty of examples of the destructive nature of irrelevant teaching. Bible teachers are not the only ones guilty of this weakness. Perhaps some Bible teachers have picked up their ideas about teaching from just such secular educators as this one. At any rate, too many Bible students are forced to spend all of their class time swimming in a sea of cold impersonal facts.
Relevance is drowned in the process.
There is more to Bible teaching than fact memorization. Sometimes basic facts may have no special meaning while standing alone. Yet they may be interwoven in such a manner as to form the curiosity often holds interest while studying facts in isolation. But the point is that relevance must be brought out in Biblical investigation. Susan, answer the question for Jim.