Just because young people come to Sunday School doesn't mean they will automatically want to join The Mother Church or a branch church someday. In fact, after finishing Sunday School, even pupils who deeply love Christian Science sometimes drift away from church.
Why? There are numerous reasons. Ignorance is one of the most common. Many pupils know surprisingly little about church: its Founder, its history, its operation, the nature of its activities, its international scope—little about the leavening influence Christian Science has had on the fields of science, theology, and medicine since its discovery or the healing impact the movement has made on individual lives in the last one hundred)cars. With ignorance can come a lack of inspiration about the purpose of church and a lack of vision about the church's role in fulfilling prophecy.
What can we do to heal this ignorance? Young people can learn much about the spiritual growth that comes from church membership, if they see this in the lives of their parents. But many pupils have parents who are not church members. So, frequently a Sunday School teacher is a pupil's closest or possibly his only direct link with church for eighteen years. Are we inspiring young people with a concept of church that will fire their imagination? Young people want to live meaningful lives. Let's help them realize the significance of joining a movement that is daily proving to the world that good alone is power. If pupils could catch the vision of Church that Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy had, wouldn't they want to be identified with the church stemming from that vision, with that circle of scientific thinkers who are changing the world?
