Great Expectations

After more than two hundred years, Sunday School is still a church’s best tool for teaching the Bible, ministering to members, and reaching the lost. But your Sunday School’s effectiveness at these tasks may depend on your own expectations as a leader.

Have you ever questioned – “What do we expect from the Sunday School ministry of our church?” If you have not, I challenge you to begin to do so. Statements such as the four listed below can guide us in planning, implementing, and leading an effective Sunday School ministry:

• We expect newcomers in Sunday School every week.
• We expect participants to have a dynamic Bible study experience each week.
• We expect members to say “yes” to opportunities to serve God.
• We expect each class to grow and to plant new classes.

Within the past few weeks, your church received a copy (or perhaps several) of David Francis’ new booklet “Great Expectations: Planting Seeds for Sunday School Growth”. I encourage you to find this resource and read it. Pull together the leadership of your Sunday School ministry and discuss the contents. Begin to assess the condition of your Sunday School ministry and prescribe changes that could be made. Emphasize your strengths. Minimize your weaknesses. Growth does not come quickly, nor does it come easily. However, as Sunday School leaders we are to be faithful stewards to the task which God has given us. Expect more of yourself, your Sunday School leadership and the Sunday School ministry of your church.

UPCOMING SUNDAY SCHOOL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

“TRANSFORM”
August 20-21 at First Baptist Church, Raytown, MO
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“FLIGHT SCHOOL”
Monday, August 23^rd from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Baptist Church, Wichita
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