Part 1: How NOT To Teach Sunday School

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

Looking Good

Ah, but it really isn't all that bad. We want to please the world by making ourselves attractive, and meat just isn't in vogue. Meat is scary and hard to chew, and we want to make Christianity "less filling". It attracts more people to church and increases the odds that someone might possibly get saved. Right?

Wrong, and we've already covered why. We're supposed to be telling the lost how to be born again, not trying to make the dead "look natural". They shouldn't feel comfortable around us! The Bible has this to say in 2 Cor. 2:15-16a:

15 Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. 16 To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this? (NLT)

In view of all this, how do we "smell" to the world? Are we causing the Biblical reaction, meaning those who reject God can't stand to be around us? Are we "salt" that can burn the tongues of the wicked and "light" that the vermin run from? Or are we so bland that God would say, "So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth!" (Rev. 3:16)? We need to look at the results of all these centuries of Sunday School and wake up to our pathetic condition.