Lesson 3 - Sunday School

Question 1

What is intergenerational teaching?

Answer 1

All ages put together and the belief that learning should be age appropriate, but not age segregated.

Question 2

What are the broad implications of intergenerational teaching?

Answer 2

1. ) Age-Appropriate Learning - learning should be age appropriate, but not segregated
2. ) Development vs. Generational issues - we have to take developmental issues seriously, while not giving in to generational segregation for marketing efficiency
3. ) Think through the different development and generational struggles
   - - Developmental category - childhood vs. adulthood
   - - Generational - teenage, adoloscence, baby boomer

Question 3

What is Mark DeVrie’s levels of faith table?

Answer 3

Childhood faith vs. Mature Faith
1.) Good christians don’t have pain or disappointment vs. God uses our pain and disappointment to make us better Christians

2. ) God helps those who help themselves vs. God helps those who admit their helplessness
3. ) God wants us to be happy vs. God wants to make us into the image of Jesus
4. ) Faith will always help us explain what God is doing vs. Faith helps us stand under God’s sovereignty even when we don’t know what God is doing
5. ) The closer we get to God the more perfect we become vs. The closer we get to God the more we become aware of our sinfulness
6. ) Mature Christians have answers vs. Mature Christians can wrestle honestly with tough questions because we trust that God has answers
7. ) Good Christians are always strong vs. Our strenght is in admitting our weakness
8. ) We go to church because our friends go there and we have great leaders and get something out of it vs. We go to church because we belong to the body of Christ

Question 4

How did Sunday School rise to prominence int he 18th c. and fall in the 20th c.?

Answer 4

Rise to prominence in the 18th c.

• • Creation in 1780 around children getting an education
• • Caught the attention of John Wesley and used it to train young people
• • In America, it quickly became the essential education
• • Led to increase in SS organizations all over

Fall in the 20th c.

• • The Lord’s Day started to disappear as Sundays became about consumption and leisure
• • Professionalization of educuation - schools became more specialized
• • SS was not for adults
• • Adult small groups became more and more popular in churches