Part 1: How NOT To Teach Sunday School

Why we need not a revival or reformation, but a revolution

"Garbage in - Garbage out"

We have teachers who were raised on pre-digested theology passing on what they know to others, with predictable results: infant Christians. The teachers have never been fed, so how can they teach others where to find food? To be fair, there are teachers who are self-motivated to search out the meat of the Bible and, through individual effort, manage to tell others the way to find spiritual food. But such as these are a vanishing breed, and I believe the fault lies squarely with The System, the sheer weight of momentum from centuries of tradition.

In the animal kingdom, you can tell a cub that's still only feeding on milk from one that has begun to eat meat by the noticeable difference in size. Likewise, we should see growing spiritual maturity and increasing depth of understanding of Biblical truths among those who have been taught for a number of years. The fact that we observe no such growth should be clear evidence that something important is missing from our spiritual diet. That something is meat, and you can't get it by filling in blanks.

One should rightly expect that after so many years of freedom of religion in this country, with so much information at our disposal including every translation of the Bible you can imagine, that our society would be saturated with Christian influence due to the great numbers of true disciples of Jesus, people who have sat at His feet and been fed. But that's not what we have by a long shot. We really do reap what we sow.