Welcome, seminary teachers. If you've been involved in the last couple episodes of writing and passing, we got another one today. It's slightly different. I call it the Team Scripture Dig. Now, for this activity, it's super simple, but super powerful. Again, print up a scripture, usually a verse or two or three, and you space it out, maybe, one space break between each line of the verse, and you put it in the center of the page. And so this could be great for a doctrinal mastery, but you wanna make sure the verse isn't too complicated or too hard. I say that because some of these Old Testament doctrinal masteries are really tricky. So you might do it more with like an Isaiah one, seventeen to eighteen would be good or something that's a, a really powerful scripture that the teenagers will really connect with and resonate with. But you can have two to three verses or even one, and you s- you space out each line between the verse-- between the phrases. So if I were to do D&C six thirty-six, I would do, "Look unto me," double space to the next line, "in every thought," double space to the next line, "doubt not," double space to the next line, "and fear not." You wanna give a sample on the screen and, and help them to see what you're doing. Now, I'll have a link in the show notes where you can go to my school account, and I'll show you... You can see a sample page. But you, you give them one-minute and have them write, comment, or mark for that one minute. Now, the difference between this and the previous ones, this one, you're picking out a word. You're picking out a small phrase. You're f-- So for example, "Look unto me." Me, I might-- This... I might circle me and write Christ out to the side. And then look, I might draw a line and out to the side and add focus on him. You just break down the scripture r- phrase by phrase, word by word. After that one minute, they're gonna pass the paper. They're gonna read the verse again. They're gonna see what people made mention of, and they could either add to the comments or circle a different f-- word or phrase and add to that, add an explanation, add a commentary, add a definition of a word. They're gonna continue to study, mark, and write commentary on the verse. And then again, one minute, pass the paper. One and a half minutes, pass the paper. You decide. You kinda gauge it based upon the engagement of the class. And then encourage students when they get a new paper to read other students' comments and build off them if they can, or just add their own definitions, explanations of words and phrases that haven't been highlighted yet. Encourage them to keep going that whole one miment-- And you could do this in groups of four, and then just keep going around that circle. Or you could have just a pass and write where it just kinda snakes throughout the class, and you could do eight, nine rotations of the passing that paper. So they're really s- dialing in on this verse, reading it multiple times, breaking down new words, new phrases each time. And then put on that peaceful music, set the timer for one minute and say, "Go. Let's do a team scripture dig and see what we got." And so that's why I call it Scripture Dig. It's like, "Hey, I want you to look at it from new angles and new ways of looking at it." Sometimes we get so caught up in just reading a verse and saying, "We're done. We've read it. We understand it." Now, this way, you're gonna look at the way students have broken down the verse and defined words, and there's defined phrases, and that's gonna give different and new insights. And be sure you demonstrate this a little bit on the board for your students to kinda get an idea to get them started. What you could do is you put a project it on the board and have some kids come up on the board, give them a marker, and say, "Okay, for this one, you're gonna do it on the board." And call up a couple students to do a scripture dig on the board. And then okay, at the end of that one minute, rotate, and now give out the markers to another two students, and they go do the scripture dig on the board for another minute, minute and a half, maybe two. Maybe they get two rotations on the whiteboard. You have a couple people at the front y- working on it on the whiteboard while everybody else is working on their individual paper. And then you say at the end of minute or end of two minutes, "Okay, let's rotate. Pass those papers," and then you give out two m- the other two, two markers to some other students, and those two students come up and work on the whiteboard. The other two that were working on it go back to their desk and work on the paper again. And so you just keep people working on the desk, at their desk with the paper, and a couple people on, at the whiteboard working on it as well. And so they're just continually working on this. Then you got some nice things to break down. Now finally, you rotate it to the last person. Say, "Okay, look at all those things that you've got. Now share with your teammates some things that you learned from this class scripture dig. and now let's bring it up to the front. Let's look at the one that's done on the board, and let's have some commentary. What did you learn? What are you seeing? Somebody explain some stuff. What did you find?" Boom. Perfect. They're not sharing, you just point to them. "Share something from your page. I see, Tommy, that you have a page there with a bunch of notes. Could you pick one and share it with the class?" Perfect. So an easy way to get them in the scriptures, get them really thinking about a scripture. Again, make sure it's a scripture that's really juicy, really good, not too complicated. You might experiment with an NIV version. So to make sure that it's not a complicated verse, that doesn't have too many words that they're like, "What is this word?" But of course, that could be helpful too. So experiment with it and have a great time with this. This is something that you could take five minutes with, or you could take 15, minutes with if you really space it out, have them do multiple passing, and then have that class discussion afterwards. Really powerful strategy. Check out the link if you wanna see a visual example. So there you go. Do a team scripture dig, a powerful strategy for scripture engagement. Have a great day, everybody. And remember, you, my friends, are awesome.
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