Sunday School Changes Everything: Your Church’s Best Opportunity to Reach the Next Generation for Christ
Overview
When Henrietta Mears began her ministry in Hollywood, California, in the 1930s, she was facing several challenges. Sixty percent of children at the time were not attending a church of any sort. Fewer than 15 percent of children who attended Sunday school ever made a decision to follow Jesus. Youth in their early college years were walking away from faith at an unprecedented rate. Church attendance across the United States was experiencing decline instead of growth.
In response to this crisis, Mears instituted a set of principles that helped grow the Sunday school program at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood from 450 to more than 4,000 in just three years. In this resource, you will find her fearless recommendations on how to:
- Build your church’s Christian education program both numerically and spiritually
- Use practical methods for training your leaders and teaching students of all stages of life
- Implement the five ingredients of successful ministry: Jesus, the Bible, relationships, a comprehensive plan, and life change
- Employ 10 standards of a good curriculum that will help you answer the question of what to teach
Is your church ready to reach the next generation for Christ? Are you passionate to help people of all ages enter the kingdom of God? The church is still perfectly suited to carry out the mission that God has given it. This book will show you how.
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- Examines what it means to help people enter the kingdom of God
- Provides tools to help build your church’s education program
- Presents recommendations for building a successful ministry
- Children’s Sunday School
- Youth Sunday School
- Adult Sunday School
- Building Your Sunday School
Top Highlights
“The loving care given in the nursery builds wonderful foundations of trust, affection and security—all of which will go a long way in helping children be receptive to instruction about God.” (Page 47)
“A consistent program of calling on prospective names of those who might be reached for the Sunday School is one of the greatest means of building up your Sunday School constructively.” (Page 219)
“ Remember, when you win one child to Christ, you may in the future win a continent” (Page 208)
“Make your calls friendly and persuasive, and don’t give up.” (Page 218)
“Sunday School for children from birth to 12 years of age” (Page 45)
Sunday school is here to stay because it still works. It is ‘big business’ because it remains centered on God’s business.
—Jack Eggar, president/CEO, Awana
Sunday School Changed Everything is a great tool to help revitalize the Sunday school movement and bring solid biblical teaching back into the local church.
—Elmer Towns, cofounder, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
- Title: Sunday School Changes Everything: Your Church’s Best Opportunity to Reach the next Generation for Christ
- Author: Henrietta Mears
- Publisher: Gospel Light
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sunday schools
- Resource ID: LLS:SNDYSCHLCHNGS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:04:21Z