You've been asked to teach a Sunday School class of young people in your branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and you've had little or no teaching experience. Perhaps you feel out of touch with young people. But you want to accept the assignment. What can you do to prepare for it?
As a starting point, you need a clear concept of what you're there to do. I've always liked the idea that a child is not an empty vessel to be filled but a lamp to be lighted.
The Sunday School teacher can help the young people in his class see themselves as they really are, children of God. He can help bring out to them their perfect, God-constituted, spiritual nature, and each one's established place, assured future, and limitless possibilities. Of course, we can't bring the bud to bloom; that is God's work. But we can nourish the pupils' interest in learning the truth that will help them in all they do.
