Mis faltas and how do you teach?

Jas 5:16 Confesaos vuestras faltas unos á otros, y rogad los unos por los otros, para que seáis sanos; la oración del justo, obrando eficazmente, puede mucho.


Cuando leía este versículo, siempre pensaba en la oración. Pero hace unos días, me di cuenta de la importancia de “confesaos vuestras faltas.”.


Estaba hablando con un gran hombre de Dios, y él me dijo de unas veces en su vida cuando se equivocó. Y me ayudó oír este.

Admiro a este hombre, y saber que él ha hecho unas culpas que he hecho me mostró que no hay un gran diferencia entre de él y yo, excepto unos 25 años y la sabiduría que traen los años.


Pero todos fallan. Y confesar sus faltas puede ayudar a un joven. Porque muchas veces, los jóvenes piensan que los adultos y ancianos no fallan y ese cree un impresión muy grande en ellos.


1Th 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1Th 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
1Th 2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
1Th 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

The method through which someone teaches can change a student’s life. If a teacher uses fear and bully tactics to force learning from a student, no real learning is obtained, but a rote memorization of facts.


And sometimes the teacher tries to be “that cool guy” who is friends with all the students. That teacher says what everyone wants to hear, but really doesn’t say anything worth hearing.
But Paul says that teaching should be done not to please man, nor as a manner of showing off and looking intelligent, and not as a mask of getting what you want. It’s also not supposed to be done to gain glory and honour.


Paul writes that all teachings should be done with gentleness, even as a nurse with children. I recently read in a book that, “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

And, whenever I’m given the chance to teach, I pray that I wouldn’t be doing it out of a desire for authority, to make people do what I say, or anything but a desire to see people grown in the Word of God, for His glory.



--Pray for Spain. Pray that the Lord would raise up missionaries and native Spaniards to take the gospel to the millions of lost souls in Spain.--