Our Limitations
Time, setting, resources, and gifts limit what a teacher can contribute. Recognizing these limits helps teachers plan realistic, purposeful care without lowering God’s long-term goal for the learner.
Lesson goal: Plan useful training within real limitations while depending humbly on God for growth.
Watch the Lesson
Video length: 17:46
Read and Apply
Read Chapter 22: Our Limitations in The Life Core, pages 122–128.
Use the PDF or EPUB book from your enrollment links or Lesson 1.
Teachers are God’s assistants rather than the source of spiritual life. Planting and watering are significant contributions, but God causes growth; this perspective resists both pride and discouragement and encourages prayerful dependence.
Key Teaching Points
- Recognize time, setting, resources, and gifts when planning.
- Keep the learner’s long-term spiritual goal in view.
- Value a small contribution without claiming to cause growth.
- Seek God’s wisdom and power in limited circumstances.
Scripture to Consider
Matthew 23:8,10; Romans 12:7–8; 1 Corinthians 3:6–7; Matthew 16:18
For Reflection
- List your main training limitations and one practical way to work within each.
- Pray over 1 Corinthians 3:6–7 and consider whether pride or discouragement affects your teaching.
Reflection prompts help you apply the lesson; they are not graded quiz questions.
Three-Question Lesson Check
Answer all three questions; all three correct answers pass. After checking your answers, use Retake to clear the answers and explanations before trying again.