Name two schools from which there are no graduates: a school of fish and Sunday School.
I am beginning to think the fish are winning - at least their schools GO SOMEWHERE.
Tonight I sat through yet another 'where do we go from here' discussion of a Bible study class - to be fair, I didn't contribute (it was my first visit). But I've helped with these endlessly repeating discussions many times over the years - and I did it just as wrong. Instead of picking topics or the book of the month we should be setting GOALS.
That is the biggest white elephant in the room today - we have only some vague notion of 'stuff about Jesus' that we want to teach. We have no clue as to what a completed education should look like.
So we end up with people spending 40 years in Sunday School and being incapable of verbalizing the Gospel - or even identifying who Hezekiah might be.
It's largely our own fault - we let the secular world take on many of the duties we had borne - and not surprisingly, not do them well. Generations of children grew up conversant in Scripture - even pre-Gutenberg. Now we can't read the King James and get Noah and Peter mixed up.
But we keep right on studying the Bible every Sunday - there is something wrong with this picture.
Self-study for its own sake is perfectly fine - but education should be more than a meandering around that never accomplishes anything.
Okay, done ranting for the moment.
I am beginning to think the fish are winning - at least their schools GO SOMEWHERE.
Tonight I sat through yet another 'where do we go from here' discussion of a Bible study class - to be fair, I didn't contribute (it was my first visit). But I've helped with these endlessly repeating discussions many times over the years - and I did it just as wrong. Instead of picking topics or the book of the month we should be setting GOALS.
That is the biggest white elephant in the room today - we have only some vague notion of 'stuff about Jesus' that we want to teach. We have no clue as to what a completed education should look like.
So we end up with people spending 40 years in Sunday School and being incapable of verbalizing the Gospel - or even identifying who Hezekiah might be.
It's largely our own fault - we let the secular world take on many of the duties we had borne - and not surprisingly, not do them well. Generations of children grew up conversant in Scripture - even pre-Gutenberg. Now we can't read the King James and get Noah and Peter mixed up.
But we keep right on studying the Bible every Sunday - there is something wrong with this picture.
Self-study for its own sake is perfectly fine - but education should be more than a meandering around that never accomplishes anything.
Okay, done ranting for the moment.
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