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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.