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B3 — Retrofit a Class
Same hour, same room, same people — changed questions. The teacher becomes the one who asks, and a coach keeps the class from sliding back to lecture.
Module B3 · theme: renovation
Look back first. You ran the taste class — what happened in the room? Members’ reactions are gold for recruiting your next teachers.
Level 2 — the retrofit:
Same hour, same room, same people — changed questions. The teacher becomes the one who asks.
The one who helps with questions. A weekly class, run this way, becomes an obedience-loop engine.
Before → After — same slot, different flow:
- A teaching class: the teacher explains; the room receives.
- A discovery class: the look-back opens · the four questions drive · the “I will” closes.
The gravitational pull: every retrofitted class wants to slide back to lecture.
That’s the number-one threat. The teacher’s hardest skill is morderse la lengua — biting the tongue. Don’t chew their food for them.
I used to think a quiet, receiving class was a healthy class. The turn: health is measured by how much they discovered and obeyed.
Read Acts 6:1–7 aloud, twice. The apostles give real ministry away — and “the word of God continued to increase.”
Practice:
- Role-play the two hard moments, using only the guardrail — “Where do you see that in this passage?” Redirect an over-talker; handle a confidently-wrong answer without lecturing it.
- Pick one willing teacher and one class to convert — and name the coach who will meet that teacher weekly. A retrofit without a coach is a reversion waiting to happen.
Your “I will”: recruit and coach one teacher, convert one class, by [date] — names attached.
Close by praying for that teacher by name.