The first primary method for teaching we will be looking at is lecture. While churches may call them sermons or messages, when you get down to it they are just lectures. Which often has a negative stigma attached to it in this extroverted culture. For a very good reason too, I say this because lecture does not cater to the extrovert’s needs very well at all. They often find it hard to sit through or get much out of lectures with it being a low stimulus level method of teaching. With lecture being such a staple of the "traditional" church, extroverts often find such churches unpleasant.
Introverts on the other hand often do quite well with lecture. As long as there are no bored extroverts causing disruption, or speakers who like to yell to fire up the crowd, introverts find the singular focus of lecture favorable; the greater depth the better.
When extroverts are found at lectures, they often do best when the speaker shouts or uses lots of multimedia. While this can be distracting to the most introverted, extroverts would do well to seek out teachers who use such methods. It can go a long way towards maintaining their full attention.
Extroverts often congregate towards the back outside the prying eyes of the speaker. Where they can divide their attention between the speaker and one another as an unconscious attempt to keep the stimulus up; often to the nuisance of introverts.
However, there is another less intrusive way of getting the extrovert’s stimulus level up. That would be doodling. One time I even heard a doodler say “I know it looks like I’m not paying attention, but I just can’t focus without doing this.”
Already, it should be clear how a one sized fits all approach to learning will not produce equal results.
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