Monday 1 October 2012

Join the dots...


Here are some dots, join them up and what do they indicate?
  1. My preschooler's managing teacher is shopping for a church. She visited six different churches on consecutive Sabbaths before hearing a sermon that quotes a passage from the bible.
  2. When I suggested that our church should establish a night school so that our lay people should have economic access to a bible education, the response from our minister responsible for teaching was: "What would we teach?" The youth pastor said that in 10 years of ministry he had never seen young people want to do bible study. 
  3. I gave a presentation to a group of young business people, mentioning the importance of bible study and an environment that encouraged discussion and debate.Afterward, many of them came to see me asking how they could find such an environment.
  4. Both my son and another girl from his school both refuse to attend Sunday School because they said they weren't learning anything. After attending a couple of classes I find that they are watching "The Incredibles" a secular cartoon movie in one session and hearing the stony of some obscure 19th century missionary. They never opened their bibles throughout.
  5. My mother-in-law took excerpts from a bible study that went through the bible chapter by chapter, verse by verse to her church woman's group. They were amazed and wanted more, wondering why they have never come across anything like this in their church.

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