My old friend (in more ways than one – we go back to the 1950s) Mark Senter III just sent me pictures of a couple of special visual aids, prepared by June’s father (an artist) for Mark’s father (a pastor) to use at the Christian camp where June and I met in 1958. I wrote about Pastor Senter’s generosity a couple of years ago.

This blog is about his teaching. Look at this chart:

Chart by Doyle Porter for Pastor Mark Senter to teach children!

Pastor Senter would have spent a week teaching this chart to, as I say, children. Can you imagine? I haven’t seen teaching in this detail for adults for decades. Yes, it’s technical, but it was also understandable and practical. I think we’ve lost something over the years.

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4.1 – 4, ESV)