An Effective Sunday School in the Midst of 21St Century

Stephene Timothée Loremy

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The idea of teaching Sunday school; however, was a “Sabbath school” for poor and uneducated children began in England in the late 18th century. Visionary evangelicals like Robert Raikes devised a plan to gather poor, uneducated working children into education classes on Sundays, the children’s only day off. In America, the first national Sunday School effort began in 1824; its stated purpose was to organize, evangelize and civilize. The book of (2 Timothy 3:16-17) states “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” For that is the reason, we encourage believers and unbelievers to continue reading the Bible and follow it as a guideline.

The purpose of the Sunday school is to teach the word of God; its power brings about the spread of justice and equality in society. It aims at developing a society that believes in living with peace and harmony. Sunday schools aim at helping people from all age groups to adopt the principles of God. Sunday school education intends to educate people the ways to adhere to ideals in life. At times, this involves the teaching of scriptures from the Bible. Learning what the Bible has to say helps the people meet with God. Enabling the connection of a common man with God is a primary purpose of Sunday schools. They aim at bringing about a spiritual development for their students. The purpose of Sunday schools is indeed worthy. One must not ignore the fact that Sunday schools offer the group an opportunity to be a part of the mission of Christianity to establish equality, peace and harmony in society. They aim at the creation of a society based on the principles of Christ and serve as excellent platforms to move closer to God.

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• Religion
• Christianisme
• Themes
• Subjects
• Religious
• Art

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 28 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664268425
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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An Effective SUNDAY SCHOOL In The Midst of 21st Century
 
Sunday school is perhaps the best-structured agency in the local church for effectively carrying out the teaching ministry of Christ.
 
 
 
 
 
STEPHENE TIMOTHÉE LOREMY
 
 
 

 
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Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.®
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-6843-2 (sc)
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WestBow Press rev. date: 6/28/2022
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
 
Chapter 1       The Challenge of Sunday school
Chapter 2       Organizing the Sunday school
Chapter 3       Discipline Includes Follow-Up
Chapter 4       Responsibility of Sunday school Superintendents
Chapter 5       Training Teachers to Reach the Lost for Jesus Christ
Chapter 6       Recruiting Teachers for Sunday School for Generation
Chapter 7       Methodology of Teaching the Sunday School
Chapter 8       The Sunday school Curriculum Development
Chapter 9       The Sunday School Patterns
Chapter 10     Future Remarks of Sunday school
 
Conclusion
References
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the Lord who give me the strength to accomplish this great work. I would like to thank my family upon this effort. And also, I would like to present my gratitude toward WestBow Press for their kindness and faithfulness that make my dream a reality throughout the world.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank all my friends and families who were more than generous with their expertise and precious time for me. Special thanks to venite Loremy, my wife, Faith Loremy, and Stephen Loremy Jr. I would like to acknowledge all my mentors and sponsors of any kind with countless hours of reflecting, reading, encouraging, and most of all patience throughout the entire process of my research. I would like to thank the superintendents of Sunday school from my church, who are allowing me to teach for around two decades. Throughout those years, I have to learn and understand the challenges that Sunday schools are facing around the world. Special thanks go to Stephene Loremy Ministries for their continued support. I must acknowledge as well all of friends, colleagues, students, Sunday school teachers, Sunday school superintendent, and all members of a church that I had been for three decades.
The purpose of Sunday school
Sunday school is an institution where people can receive education both for eternal and material life. Sunday school education has evolved over couple centuries ago and was established under Robert Raikes knowledge in 1780. Sunday school has fallen on hard times recently. In the 1980 many pastors had seen that the Sunday school as an antique that needed to be gotten rid of like other old-fashioned programs like prayer meetings and Sunday evening services. As church goes up to multiple worship services, an increasing number of parents sent their kids to Sunday school as a baby-sitting service, while many attended worships then after an hour they all went home. Many other people considered the Sunday schools as providing common masses with an opportunity to study the Bible (Cagno, 200).
The Sunday school education is always included a comprehensive study of the Bible. It intends to imbibe in the minds of the people, the principles and philosophies stated in the Bible. One of the primary purposes of the Sunday school is to teach the Bible to the students. Teaching aims at instilling in the minds of the students, faith in God and teaching them the principles, which Christ adhered to. The education imparted on Sunday schools is generally intended to promote Christian fellowship with any ethnicity backgrounds in such color, race, and gender. It evangelizes the common people, thereby promoting the spread of Christianity around the world. It intents at bringing people from different strata of society together. And also, it aims at uniting the people under one common umbrella called Christianity. The preaching of Jesus Christ is shared with the common masses, and they are encouraged to adhere to His principles. Sunday school also is meant to teach the common people, the principles of social service. Sunday schools are about teaching people to be concerned towards society and work for its betterment. It is about encouraging people to be positive in life and imbibe optimism in those around them. It is about instilling in the young minds, love and care towards others in society.
Chapter 1

The Challenge of Sunday school
The purpose of the Sunday school is to teach the word of God; its power bringing about the spread of justice and equality in society. It aims at developing a society that believes in living with peace and harmony. Sunday schools aim at helping people from all age groups to adopt the principles of God. Sunday school education intends to teach people the ways to adhere to ideals in life. At times, this involves the teaching of scriptures from the bible. Learning what the bible has to say helps people meet with God. Enabling the connection of common man with God is a primary purpose of Sunday schools. They aim at bringing about a spiritual development of their students. The purpose of Sunday schools is indeed worthy. One must not ignore the fact that Sunday schools offer the group an opportunity to be a part of the mission of Christianity to establish equality, peace, and harmony in society. They aim at the creation of a society based on the principles of Christ and serve as excellent platforms to move closer to God.
Some pastors resented preparing teachers presiding over their own little congregation on Sunday school classes and competed with them, hoping they would die out. In the 1980s and 1990s small groups of ministers were introduced as a candidates to reject the Sunday school. Though they still have not yet eclipsed the Sunday school. As churches constructed new buildings, the high cost of classroom space caused many to reduce the number of classrooms and others to eliminate classes altogether and go to all-worship programs. When an increasing number of lawsuits were filed for sexual abuse of children related to churches, boards started reorganizing small classes into larger and larger gatherings where forty or sixty or even one hundred children attended Sunday school classes, which became more like worship services. Researchers found that, “Sesame Street” performances or concerts than the intimate small groups of children with a teacher-who-knew-their-name of the past; however, another thing changed in the 1960s. In the mid1960s the first question parents always asked their children after the church was, “What did you learn at Sunday school?” During the years 1960 through 1970 this case changed. Parents began to ask their children at the door of the classrooms, “Did you guys have fun?” Perhaps more than any other shift, this controversy has affected the direction of today’s Sunday schools. In the past, most parents were worried about their children Sunday school education.
At the dawning of the industrial era, in the late 1700s, about the time of the United States Revolutionary war, England had an enormous underclass of poor people who had moved from the countryside to the city to work in factories. There was at least one workshop in Gloucester that manufactured pins. Children as young as eight-years-old worked six days a week in gross surroundings for a pittance. When their tiny hands got caught in a gear and cut off, the children were simply dumped on the streets and new workers were hired. That time was hard for young children who did not have parents to maintain or satisfy their needs. There was no direct schooling. Education was considered a stock (not a communal) goods. If they had enough money, they sent their children to school. If parents were poor, their children did not learn to read and write They were probably destined to a life of poverty.
In the growing industrial society, the poor never seemed able to climb out of their abject poverty. Robert Raikes came up with the idea of having a Sunday school