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RH2P1: The Joy of Teaching
Purpose: To understand that the joy of teaching is in the very act of sharing with others the Word of God, independent of immediate results.

Section 8

Below are some ideas for a skit called “positive-negative”. Choose a friend and, after each learning a part, either “positive” or “negative”, perform the skit before the group. Do not be content with these few examples, but consult and write some other situation to include in your skit.

Positive: I’m a Baha’i, and it brings me the greatest happiness to share Baha’u'llah’s Message with others. Every time I teach the Faith, my heart overflows with joy.
Negative: I’m a Baha’i and truly like to teach. But, oh! What a pain! I have to get up so early to go to the village where the committee has asked me to teach.
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Positive: Teaching children is important and something I very much like to do. The children in the villages I visit are very special and I consider them to be among my best friends.
Negative: Teaching children is very important, but it seems to me an impossible task. Today’s children behave poorly and nobody can stand to be around them.
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Positive: I have a weekly children’s class that is going very well. Of course, my children are not angels. Sometimes there are problems, and I have trouble teaching them. But by following the counsels of Baha’u'llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and with love and patience, everything works out. What joy to see the progress these children have made in the year I have been teaching them.
Negative: Well, one of the things I have to do is to teach children. But they don’t respond. I started with a class of thirty, and it soon became twenty. Now only five come. And what are these few going to learn from the classes I teach every now and then whenever I feel like it?
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Positive: The other day I went to visit a Baha’i family to give them their news bulletin. They weren’t home, but I met a relative of theirs I did not know before. I took advantage of the opportunity and taught him the Faith. He accepted.
Negative: The other day I went to visit a Baha’i family to give them their news bulletin. One of their relatives, whom I had never met before, told me they were not at home. I was disappointed and left.
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Positive: In his region it is a bit difficult to get people to meet regularly. But, with perseverance, you can. A year ago we started a deepening class in my community on Wednesday evenings. At the beginning two people came. But we didn’t get discouraged. We never had negative thoughts about those who did not attend. We continued visiting the friends and sharing with them what we had studied at the meetings. During the last few months, ten Baha’is have been coming to the class regularly, and the number is still growing.
Negative: Look, people don’t come to meetings! They don’t met! They just don’t meet!

Section 9

We have reflected on the grandeur of Baha’u'llah’s Revelation and have seen how important it is for us to share His Word with others. We understand fully that the joy of teaching is in the act of sharing His Word. In order to maintain this joy we must be detached from the things of this world, from the want of praise and recognition, and be willing to exert effort and make sacrifices.

In the quotations below Baha’u'llah tells us that we should arise to guide souls to His Cause. He assures us that, when we do so, the hosts of divine inspiration descend upon us and assist us. Confident in the unfailing assistance of Baha’u'llah, we should detach ourselves from all things, be unrestrained as the wind, and spread the glad-tidings of His Revelation in every direction. It is suggested that you end this course by memorizing these quotations.

“Gird up the loins of thine endeavor, that haply thou mayest guide thy neighbor to the law of God, the Most Merciful. Such an act, verily, excelleth all other acts in the sight of God, the All-Possessing, the Most High.”

“By the righteousness of God! Whoso openeth his lips in this Day and maketh mention of the name of his Lord, the hosts of Divine inspiration shall descend upon him from the heaven of My name, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”

“Whoso ariseth to teach Our Cause must needs detach himself from all earthly things, and regard, at all times, the triumph of Our Faith as his supreme objective.”

“Be unrestrained as the wind, while carrying the Message of Him Who hath caused the Dawn of Divine Guidance to break.”

“When the victory arriveth, every man shall profess himself as believer and shall hasten to the shelter of God’s Faith. Happy are they who in the days of world-encompassing trials have stood fast in the Cause and refused to swerve from its truth.”
– Gleaning from the Writings of Baha’u'llah, CLXI, p. 339 / CXXIX, p. 280 / CLVII, p. 334 / CLXI, p. 339 / CL, p. 319.

“O Son of Being! Make mention of Me on My earth, that in My heaven I may remember thee, thus shall Mine eyes and thine be solaced.”
– Baha’u'llah, The Hidden Words, Arabic no. 43, p. 13.

这节课的气氛没有预想中的那么好，一方面是提问方式，另一方面应该是课文内容太多注重于传教。关于提问方式，还没有机会提出来，书上的问题设置让人感觉自己才三岁，虽然可以说重复可以加深理解和记忆，不过情况却不是这样子的，就是所谓加深的效果并不如意。要传教，那么首先就得对自己信仰的宗教有一定的认识，让自己在口头传述的时候有种自信，而不是首先就说明传教的重要性和“前仆后继”的精神。而要了解，就得进行系统的训练，就得对背景、其它宗教、可能面对的问题、现代社会的适用性等等进行预先的学习。在传教的过程中是可以学习，但在没有准备下还是不要冒风险去误导没有听过的人。

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