Are they coming back for more? Your Sunday School class, that is.
If not, why not?
Are new pupils attending?
If not, why not? Are your pupils becoming serious metaphysicians? Can they heal themselves and others through prayer? Are they using spiritual resources to find answers to the deep challenges facing them?
There is a great deal of talk about dropouts and decreasing Sunday School attendance. But are we facing up to a point that deserves profound consideration: would there be a dropout if that one hour together in class became the most important hour of the week for your pupils, if it were so vital, so exciting, and so vibrant with love that they wouldn't think of missing it?
Sunday School teachers surely can reach this goal. Many do. Properly taught, Christian Science is the most exciting and adventurous thing going. Mrs. Eddy assures us, "Christian Science is at length learned to be no miserable piece of ideal legerdemain, by which we poor mortals expect to live and die, but a deep-drawn breath fresh from God, by whom and in whom man lives, moves, and has deathless being." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 195;
