.  The previous pastor at the church I pastored did this. He read the Greek or Hebrew text, wrote it on a overhead, and translated the text. This practice gave the congregation a false sense of knowing the Greek or Hebrew text and a false sense that they were recieving "deep teaching." Some people in the congregation merely tolerated this practice.  There are a number of problems with this practice:  --It gives a false sense of the congregation knowing Greek and Hebrew. They congregation does not learn Greek and Hebrew, even if they pick up a few vocabulary words. Language is much more than vocabulary learning.  --The focus upon word meaning and translation is only a single part of benefiting from using Greek and Hebrew. Most importantly, context was overlooked because of the emphasis upon single verses and single words.  --This type of teaching takes time. This means that time that could have been better spent in teaching the meaning of the text in a way that the congregation could have benefitted was lost.  The previous pastor at the church I pastored did this. He read the Greek or Hebrew text, wrote it on a overhead, and translated the text. This practice gave the congregation a false sense of knowing the Greek or Hebrew text and a false sense that they were recieving "deep teaching." Some people in the congregation merely tolerated this practice.  There are a number of problems with this practice:  --It gives a false sense of the congregation knowing Greek and Hebrew. They congregation does not learn Greek and Hebrew, even if they pick up a few vocabulary words. Language is much more than vocabulary learning.  --The focus upon word meaning and translation is only a single part of benefiting from using Greek and Hebrew. Most importantly, context was overlooked because of the emphasis upon single verses and single words.  --This type of teaching takes time. This means that time that could have been better spent in teaching the meaning of the text in a way that the congregation could have benefitted was lost.  