Scholarly, Insightful, Stimulating and Resourceful are some of the superlatives that can be used to describe the Sunday School here at Friendship. Because the Word of God is timeless and we have teachers who are serious about “rightly dividing the Word of Truth”, our students receive information that will “equip” and “edify”.
The Bible is the basic textbook of the Sunday School. A knowledge of the Bible is essential to scholarship in many fields. The libraries of the world are to a large extent commentaries and elaborations on the principles laid down in the Bible. It is truly a library within itself. The man who knows the Bible is a scholar and if he adheres to it, a gentlemen. Here at Friendship, you are taught not to read anything into the Good Book, if you wish to get anything out of it – just take it straight. You cannot alter the Bible to fit you, rather you must change yourself to fit it; otherwise you will have Christianity’s conformity in reverse. What you think of the Bible does not affect it—just you. What you think of the Sunday School does not affect it—again, just you. If it appears the Bible is too deep, you surely need the exercise it affords to think deeper. If it looks too exacting, you definitely require its influence to keep from straying. (Ahem), and if it seems dry, it might be that you have allowed too much dust to accumulate on it. If you think the Sunday School is not for you, THINK AGAIN!
In Sunday School, we are taught to DO RIGHT. Right is not something just to verbalize on; it is something to be and do. And the steps are simple: Know right, believe right and do right. This will give one the basis to hope for attainment, because it is always linked with right. Hear the big BOOK; “Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). “Then Peter opened his mouth and said, ‘Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him’ (Acts 10:34, 35).
Do Right, come to Sunday School.
Pastor J. Amos Jones
