WEEK 9 JON BLANCHARD

A. Time spent this week
Sunday school: 1 hour; Evening Worship: 3.5 hours; youth group: 9 hours; Total hours: 13.5 hours
B. My class this week
This week we continued the “fireproofing your marriage” Sunday school venue. Our leader started off by handing us a map of the differences between the male and female brain structures. Apparently the male brain is focused on sports and sex, while the female brain is focused on love and shopping (it was a joke). We did talk about the differences between the way men and women communicate though. In a society where men are taught not to show emotion and women are typically tender and emotional, it becomes difficult to get the right message across.
We watched a clip of the movie “Fireproof” again, this week discussing the perceptions we have of our significant others because of how we communicate. The main character, Caleb, is venting to Michael, while Caleb’s wife is out to dinner with a few girlfriends from work. Caleb believes that his marriage is falling apart because his wife does not respect him and his wife thinks he doesn’t care about her anymore or show any type of affection towards her. Because of this, both people have come to the same conclusion: they are incompatible.
We were each encouraged to talk to our spouses (my fiancé in this case, because I am not married yet) about how we can better communicate. Jocelyn (my fiancé) and I both laughed at the clip, but we also talked about how we needed to learn each other’s way of communicating better.
C. Questions
Is it appropriate to teach Sunday school without the use of scripture?
How do you teach a series that is not primarily focused on the Bible to a person who comes in during the middle of the series?