Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 170:679 (Jul 2013)
Article: A Literary Tribute To Dr. Roy B. Zuck
Author: Matthew S. DeMoss

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A Literary Tribute To Dr. Roy B. Zuck

Matthew S. DeMoss

Compiler

In the course of his life Roy Zuck published fifteen books and edited over a hundred. He wrote over a hundred articles for over a dozen periodicals. In Bibliotheca Sacra alone he contributed a dozen articles and more than 250 book reviews. This issue includes the last six reviews he wrote—five book reviews and a periodical review.

In tribute to a great servant who was on the staff of Bibliotheca Sacra for nearly forty years—and at the helm since 1986—this article contains a sampling of Dr. Zuck’s writing. The selections are, like the author himself, steeped in Scripture, trustworthy, and immensely practical.

The Holy Spirit in Your Teaching (Wheaton: Scripture Press, 1963), based largely on Dr. Zuck’s doctoral dissertation, has been reprinted, translated, and republished multiple times. It is still in print today—fifty years after its original publication.1 The section below was taken from a summary chapter originally titled “Go . . . Teach,” based on the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20.

When a teacher recognizes that the Holy Spirit is indispensable in the teaching-learning process, teaching takes on exciting dimensions.

Following are five implications stemming from, or summarizing, this study.

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Remember That Christian Education Is A Supernatural Task

The presence of God’s Holy Spirit in teaching takes Christian education beyond mere programming, methodology, and techniques. The Spirit’s work in education makes it a divine, supernatural ministry.

Christian education takes on a new perspective when viewed as God’s work, not man’s, as the energy of the Spirit, not of the flesh. Seen as a divine work, teaching God’s truths becomes a responsibility of fantastic proportions and implications. As you acknowledge the work of the Spirit, you sense that Christian education involves high objectives, a holy Book, divine truths, eternal souls, heavenly issues, and an infallible Teacher. As LeBar has aptly stated, “How superlative ought to be any form of Christian teaching with so many supernatural distinctives—the infallible written Word revealing our Creator-Redeemer God who sent His Son to be King of kings, and the Holy Spirit working within the teacher, upon or within the pupils, to exalt the Saviour through the inscripturated record!”2

“Teaching the Word ...