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Initiate learning process

ANCHOR TEXT: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth” 2 Timothy 2:15. How effective would a teacher be if he came into his classroom and asked his students what he should teach? Worse still, if the students do not know anything and the teacher does not know anything, how is learning going to be accomplished? In this generation of ours, you can neither be effective nor lead anyone if you lack intellectual substance. You cannot always afford to wait for others to come along and teach you. You are to initiate the process of learning. Nichodemus, a respected chief, and one of the teachers of the law during the time of Jesus felt he needed to know more about what Jesus was teaching, so, he initiated the process – He left the comfort of his bed and went to Jesus by night and asked some questions. One of the enquiries he made was: ‘how can I be born again? Does it mean I will enter