The Biblical Basis for Multiple Teaching Methods/Tools/Styles

In this post we'll briefly list out 10 Biblical types of teaching. At the end we'll come to some conclusions about varied teaching methods and learning:

1. Sermons. Acts is full of sermons. Jesus preached some sermons like the sermon on the mount, commissioning the 12, parables, the olivet discourse, etc.
2. Written communication (letters). Paul's epistles are a great example. These seem to be 
3. Questioning. Take a look at Job 38-41. No systematic theology is given by God there... just questions to make Job think. Jesus used questions in Matthew 16:26, 21:23-27, 22:20-21, etc.
4. Parables. Jesus, of course, was the master of parables. He often left the parables uninterpreted and they were created to teach a lesson and make people think. 
5. Assigned tasks. Jesus told the rich young ruler to go, sell his possessions and give them to the poor. Jesus told the woman at the well to go get her husband and come back. Paul gave people in his epistles tasks and then chastised them for not following through (or praised them for doing what he asked). 
6. Learning by experience. Real, physical, verifiable miracles accompanied Jesus' teaching and life. Paul's conversion is clearly learning by experience. Israel's tug-of-war with God plays out as a giant narrative told in the OT and is full of evaluated experiences interpreted in light of who God is. 
7. Discussion and Debate. Jesus answered questions from real people in a real historical cultural context. Paul clearly had detractors and doubters in mind as he wrote some epistles. In the book of Acts there are multiple debates between early Christians and unbelievers.
8. Life-on-Life Coaching. We might say discipleship. It's everywhere in scripture. 
9. Group activities. There were things done as a group in the Old and New Testaments that served as great object lessons and hands-on learning opportunities. For example, building the walls of Jerusalem, wandering in a wilderness, building pyramids, taking up collections for the poor in Jerusalem, and standing up to the demands of a pagan culture (think Daniel and friends for example). 
10. Patience/waiting. One of the great principles of spiritual growth is that it takes time. We all know this and yet our teaching methods are often the most efficient, time-saving ones rather than the methods that allow for long-term growth. Jacob waited and worked to get Rachel. Saul was stripped of the kingdom but David exercised patience (and grew) while he waited to take it over. See the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-25. The epistles are full of references to patience and endurance in suffering. 

If there is so much variety of teaching method in scripture, why do we gravitate to the lecture method first and foremost? Perhaps there is a simple creativity problem here. Kenneth O. Gangel says (2005), "One danger teachers face is the constant temptation to offer excuses for lack of variety in teaching methodology. Many teachers excuse their consistent gravitation to the lecture method by suggesting that the amount of content, or perhaps the nature of the content, requires that approach. Actually, they are probably guilty of not thinking creatively with regard to methodology."
https://bible.org/seriespage/1-thinking-about-teaching-methods 

Where are you at? What kinds of creative ways can you think of to vary your teaching method? What Biblical examples struck you the most? Do you disagree with any of the teaching methods mentioned? What steps can we take as a staff to spur one another on to more creativity and variance in our methods as we seek to change hearts and lives?