“What place children have in our churches is shaped by our ecclesiology – our beliefs about what church is. That is, ‘children’s ministry’ which is not explicitly justified by some theology of church remains tacitly justified by the common ecclesiological beliefs assumed within any given congregation. In the modern technocratic age, we tend to view everything through the lens of what we can concretely see and control. If we assume church is like this too – which we typically do – then ‘church’, for our children, is some sort of program which is designed to Christianly educate, socialize and entertain the children of church attending adults on Sundays.”
Monday, July 18, 2011
DOES SUNDAY SCHOOL HAVE A FUTURE?
Does Sunday School have a future?
I spend a lot of my time thinking, talking and being part of Sunday morning education. Sheldon C. Good has the serious question, does Sunday School have a future? He may be more optimistic then myself, but he does agree that it will look a little different than we have imagined int he past.
I spend a lot of my time thinking, talking and being part of Sunday morning education. Sheldon C. Good has the serious question, does Sunday School have a future? He may be more optimistic then myself, but he does agree that it will look a little different than we have imagined int he past.
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