Ishmael
March 11th 2003, 04:28 PM
I am opening this thread to talk about how great my students are one. But more importantly to talk about Sunday School for children in terms of what they are really capable of. I have been disappointed by children’s literature through the years and so when I got a chance to teach children myself as a Chaplain, I decided to push the limits of what modern "experts" seem to think they are capable of academically.
My experiment with children in this regard has been a great success.
I have some random thoughts I posted on another thread to share here to:
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Random thoughts about my Sunday School Class:
You know I can see each of their faces and know their names very well. There are 8 of them. 5 of them are children of chaplains and the other three are officers' kids... Army brats all.
But they aren't brats. Instead they are well behaved and responsive to learning the Bible. Three have learned to take notes and all of them can recite the Westminster Shorter Catechism to question 10, where we left off to do topical bible studies when we realized that I had orders to deploy.
I think that the children, my students, know quite a bit about the Bible already. I think that they apply what they know better than most adults. There is a seriousness about them in my class that I didn't really know kids of that age could muster.
Because of this I have made it my business to teach them Theology and Christian Anthropology by contrasting our worldview with the current secular worldview.
They act like they aren't getting the heady material sometimes and complain about the difficulty of their studies, but this past Sunday one of the girls came to me and asked if she might borrow a copy of Escape from Reason from me to read herself after I mentioned that the weeks lesson was drawn in part from the classic work.
........more to come............
My experiment with children in this regard has been a great success.
I have some random thoughts I posted on another thread to share here to:
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Random thoughts about my Sunday School Class:
You know I can see each of their faces and know their names very well. There are 8 of them. 5 of them are children of chaplains and the other three are officers' kids... Army brats all.
But they aren't brats. Instead they are well behaved and responsive to learning the Bible. Three have learned to take notes and all of them can recite the Westminster Shorter Catechism to question 10, where we left off to do topical bible studies when we realized that I had orders to deploy.
I think that the children, my students, know quite a bit about the Bible already. I think that they apply what they know better than most adults. There is a seriousness about them in my class that I didn't really know kids of that age could muster.
Because of this I have made it my business to teach them Theology and Christian Anthropology by contrasting our worldview with the current secular worldview.
They act like they aren't getting the heady material sometimes and complain about the difficulty of their studies, but this past Sunday one of the girls came to me and asked if she might borrow a copy of Escape from Reason from me to read herself after I mentioned that the weeks lesson was drawn in part from the classic work.
........more to come............