Category: Church Involvement
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Picking Leaders
When a vacancy for an office in the church opens, what do we do? Do we shove just anyone who is willing into that position? If you attended my church’s annual business meeting this year and were a close observer, you might have noticed that a few of our church boards moved from having…
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Biblical Warrant for Sunday School – Life Together
The Benefit of an Adult “Sunday School” Time – Part 4 This is the final post in a series on Sunday school. Here, we look at the need for the church to do life together, and how Sunday school fosters life together. Sunday school allows us as a church to do life together. It…
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Biblical Warrant for Sunday School – Word-Centered
The Benefit of an Adult “Sunday School” Time – Part 3 This is the third post on Sunday school. This post seeks to give a second reason for why we have biblical warrant for something like Sunday school. Here we will look at the need to be in God’s word as a church and…
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Biblical Warrant for Sunday School – Discipleship
The Benefit of an Adult “Sunday School” Time – Part 2 In the previous post on the history of Sunday school, I said that Sunday school accomplishes some of what the church is commanded to do in the Scriptures. This implies that something like Sunday school is much older than the 16th century because its…
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The Benefit of an Adult “Sunday School” Time – A Brief History
I am a part of a church that has a “Sunday School” time before our whole church meets together for corporate worship on Sunday morning. As with many local churches, our Sunday school attendance is considerably lower than what church leadership would like it to be. This four-part series seeks to demonstrate the value…