Sunday School My Way

 

Sunday School My Way

by Scott Brown

For quite some time, I have had a sinister thought about how to change the face of the traditional Sunday school. My view is that big changes are necessary because the modern Sunday school has had an unplanned effect: it has lulled fathers into inactivity.
If I had my way in a traditional church, at the doors of the Sunday school classes, I would place monitors (the bigger and uglier the better) which would ask the fathers who were dropping their children off if they had studied the Word with their families and properly catechized them during the week. Most would say they had not even though they did take them to Awana and Youth Group.
The “monitors” would use a script that reminds of the commands of God regarding their teaching responsibility. After this instruction, we send them back to their cars (with a Bible) so they can teach their children (instead of dropping them off and giving the job to someone it was never intended for in the first place).
The program oriented church is a brilliant marketing organization. It is structured to cause rapid growth by offering “services” like Sunday schools that appeal to a wide range of people. But, because these programs are more attractive to the common people, the things that the apostles require are left out because they are more difficult for people to accomplish.
It is much easier to send your children to a Sunday school class than it is to teach the Bible yourself.
The sad truth is: most men go to Sunday school and send their children off to do the same, but very few personally teach their children and wives.
Something drastic needs to done about it. Desperate times beg for desperate measures. Desperate measures require certain kinds of men.

The Need for a Holy Life

The Need for a Holy Life

A Passage from the book- Holiness - By J. C. Ryle

Over the years, the subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background. The Christian standard of living has become painfully low. The importance of “adorning the doctrine of God our Lord and Savior” (Tit 2:10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked. Worldly people complain with reason that so called “religious” or “Christians” are not as amiable and unselfish and good-natured as non-believers.

Sound doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by holy living. It is worse than useless: it does harm. It is despised and seen by the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.

It is my impression that we need a revival about scriptural holiness.

Our godless society!

(Theodore Cuyler, "Wayside Springs from the Fountain of Life" 1883)

"Do not be conformed to the world." Romans 12:2

The sin of modern civilization has been well described as "making more of status than it does of character." But the very essence of Bible religion, is to make character everything--and conduct the test and evidence of character.Our godless society needs a strict, pure, honest, self-denying, godly-minded church! Conformity to the world--will never convert the world! We are not to accommodate Christianity to the thought and fashion of the times--but to keep it stoutly and steadily up to its original standards. We must stand fast, not only to the faith once delivered to the saints, but to the practices which are enjoined in God's Word.

Social life, with increase of wealth, has a trend towards demoralization. Luxury weakens morality. Popular amusements become sensualized and offer their temptations to the church. "Do not be conformed to the world" applies to the theater, the ball-room, the wine-cup, and to everything that would turn God's earth into a "Vanity Fair." Conformity to the world amounts, in the end, to more than the corruption of Christ's church. It puts out the light which Christ has kindled; it destroys the very leaven which He has prepared to purify and sweeten and save a "world lying in wickedness."