Article October 9, 1971 Issue

Relevant Sunday School Teaching

FRANCES L. WEST

"There was this kid. He'd had enough of living with his folks, so he cut out and tried to make it on his own. But he went through the money he'd had from his dad and really gave himself a bad time. So he figured he'd try for a second chance at home. Luckily his dad could communicate. He made it the second time around."

Description of a dropout? The hippie who wasn't hip? Not a bit. It's Christ Jesus' parable of the prodigal son related by a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School.

These days many young people say that the church is out of date—out of touch with the seventies, incompetent to play a meaningful part in their lives. They're looking for a religion that's practical, that they can put to work and see results. Old, mistaken concepts of a God in the clouds, of a happy heaven and a hot hell, just won't do.

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