This Pastor cannot emphasize strongly enough the importance of the Sunday School to the overall worship experience. The Sunday School is the primary teaching department of the church. In the Sunday School, we are not only taught about God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, we get to know the God-head in a very real way. Paul tells us in Philippians 3:10: “That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” That we may know Him! That is the essence of the Sunday School:
- That we have the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
- That we know the exceeding greatness of God’s power toward the believers when He raised Christ from the
dead.
- Know that if we suffer with Christ, we shall also reign with him.
In the Greek, the original language of the New Testament, ‘to know” means “to have an intimate knowledge of.” Participation in the Sunday School will bring us to the place where the Samaritans are in John 4:42: “And said unto the woman, now we believe, not because thy saying; for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
In Sunday School, we receive that “intimate knowledge of God,” or “revelation knowledge.” To “know God” is to love and obey Him. As important as the Sunday School is to the body of Christ, sadly here at Friendship, only eleven percent of the members attend Sunday School on a regular basis. Let me appeal to the eighty-nine percent of the membership that do not attend Sunday School on a regular basis.
Dear Ones, there is something in the Sunday School for YOU. Age appropriate classes, the Word of God taught in a clear, concise, contextual manner and the Godhead presented in a relevant way is the Sunday School at Friendship. It is my prayer that I will see YOU there.
Pastor J. Amos Jones
