(Note: the blue horizontal menu bar directly above lists the subsections of the third component, "Content." Be sure to read each of these subsections before moving on to the fourth component, "Community.")

Third Component: Content

Good content generates interest and enthusiasm that attracts members and newcomers to events and classes. Even deeper, however, good content is the seedbed for growing faith.

Adult educators need to traverse some difficult territory when choosing speakers, curriculum, and resources for faith formation—including carefully balancing the congregation's concerns and one's own commitments, linking content and style, creating theological direction, developing levels of depth and maturity across the template, and using congregational resources.