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So You Want to Quit Teaching Sunday School?

From the July 1972 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Nobody knows how many of us Sunday School teachers have at one time or another entertained these arguments: Someone else would do a better job with my Sunday School class than I can. I'm not reaching the children, so I'd better quit and let someone who has more time to prepare for it take the class. I've lost my inspiration. I'm just not a teacher. I'm much better at ushering. And so on.

Do you think you are alone in meeting these arguments? They come to practically everyone who decides to teach a Sunday School class. It's time they are seen as part of the aggressive mental suggestion that perhaps you are not in your right place on Sunday morning and doing what is right for you to do. It's time to stop listening to them, time to strip them of any power they seem to have.

Are you loving enough to be in the Sunday School? Sunday School teachers are in the business of loving. If as a teacher you are imbued with love that reaches out to all the pupils in the class, you will find them responsive. When you are pouring forth, through reflection, that universal consciousness of Love which is God in action, you are manifesting the Christ, the only power capable of imparting truth to that class.

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