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/files/Christian Education 1/logo_LIFE.jpgThe National Sunday School Department offers the following vision as a strategy for moving Sunday School toward its full potential in today.

To learn more about this new and exciting approach to Christian education, please click here to visit our national Sunday School Department.
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Learning together

As children, youth, and adults study the Bible in Sunday School, they learn to use biblical principles as a moral compass to guide and protect them throughout everyday life. As they study together in small groups, they learn to use their Bibles. They listen to how God is working in each others’ lives. They become comfortable at talking about spiritual matters and at applying biblical principles to life in today’s world.
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Including all who come
Sunday School includes people of all ages and presents the gospel at every person’s level of understanding. In the small group setting of Sunday School, students become friends. They pray together, help each other, encourage one another, and enjoy being together. Sunday School makes it easier for new members to become part of the church body. The listening and talking that occurs in most Sunday School classes help students move from being acquaintances to becoming friends and feeling like a member of a spiritual family.
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Finding others who need to know
Sunday School (when done well) prepares people to find others who need to know Jesus. It helps them gain confidence in telling others how Jesus is changing their own lives. In Sunday School, children, youth, and adults also learn to talk about God’s absolute truth in a culture that wonders if absolutes even exist. In ways that match their age or life stage, students prepare to tell others about Jesus’ love and plan of salvation.
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Emerging for ministry
Sunday School also prepares people for ministry. Students discover and develop abilities that can be used to help others. As students hear reports of how God is using everyday believers to meet needs in many ways, they begin to believe that God can use each of them as well. Periodically, Sunday School classes can plan ministry projects–sometimes with the whole church, sometimes as individuals, sometimes with other Sunday Schools throughout the country. As students gain skill and confidence, the amount of effective spiritual ministry increases.