The class already started. We already had a quiz. The serious students really are. I love them. I don't need many, but I need a few. I love the kind that run out and buy the book I say to buy. Whatever they can learn about God and the Bible, they will. If I can teach, I get to teach. When I stop, they'll find someone else or demand that I supply someone else. Sunday School is now GBI, the Goodwill Bible Institute. Institute is a verb. The teachers will be called faculty, no matter what age they teach. They will be asked to sign contracts for the classes they teach. We're a small group within a large church. It's not that lots of people don't want to spend great time with the Bible, but there are other things in their lives. These other things! I'm not even promoting the class. People who want to come have to discover it. Isaiah will take 18 months and the classes will be recorded, so the latecomers will have a chance to finish well. I love that I'm not "selling" the class from the front of the sanctuary. How pathetic it feels trying to convince people that time in the Bible is worthwhile. They'll learn as God leads them to. God is the one who does this in a person. Interest in His Word depends on His Merciful Spirit, not on our efforts or desires (Romans 9:16).
The class already started. We already had a quiz. After a two week hiatus, we'll pick the class back up and have our second quiz.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
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