Hours this week-2.5 (1-Sunday School, 1.5-Worship)
This week was another typical Sunday morning. The class began with prayer, which was very good because we hadn’t really spent a whole lot of time in prayer as a class in a while. We got into groups and shared some requests that we had and spent time praying together. It was refreshing to get reconnected in the lives of the group. Not being in prayer together really makes it hard to understand where one another is at in each others lives.
Opening and closing with prayer is always a good thing. Yet, how much better could our classes be and the relationships be if there was a lot prayer being implemented into the classes? Prayer should be a central point of the class and worship both. Often prayer is used as “filler” or can also be seen by some as expendable. Often churches will cut prayers from their services or classes for the sake of time. However, I believe that prayer can be a great tool for use in the setting of Sunday school.
The lesson was an okay lesson. It was very informative and very little interaction was necessary for the class. It was like hearing a lecture in college. I was bored! Oh my goodness was I ever so bored. Not to mention the subject was somewhat elementary and dry. It was like he had forgotten about the lesson until the night before and then decided to try and throw something together. It was somewhat disorganized and very unlike him. It was probably the worst class we have had all semester. But, we had class and got something out of the prayer time so it was not a complete loss.
Questions for this week:
Why do we only use prayer to open and close classes and services? Why can’t we use prayer in more creative ways? What creative ways?
Obviously a teacher should not wait until the last night to get the lesson organized, but what if they are bad teachers? Should one be confronted about their teaching style and be asked to change?
Chris,
ReplyDelete1. We open with prayer to invite the Spirit to do his work in and through us. We close with it saying, "in Jesus' name," because the authority has been given to us. It also dedicates all we do to Him. However, we can always use prayer for everything. Think of group prayer times or prayer journaling.
2.Teachers should regularly attend leadership training and be in the constant care of the leadership of the church to make sure the people are not being mis-lead. Think of a Shepheard and his sheep. He would not let just anyone tend to his flock he would train the substitute thouroghly.
Joey