A paraclete is someone who walks alongside someone.  We’ve got our cleats on to walk alongside you.

In Pair of Cleats, we have often encouraged you to stretch your teaching to new creative “frontiers.”  We strongly believe in the use of many different creative teaching methods and leaning less on “speaching” methods.  So I was encouraged to read this quote from Richard Ross, someone I respect, in the current Group Magazine (January/February 2010):  “A strategy I have grave concerns about is one that places students almost always in a passive, listening mode while leaders speak or talk to them about spiritual things.