In support of Sunday School
I remember well the day I graduated from Christian Science Sunday School. I’d had such good classes and teachers that I didn’t want to leave. I was hoping we could form some sort of new, twenty-something class, just to continue the discussions we’d been having.
Yet only a short time later, after joining a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in a city I’d recently moved to, I found myself right back in Sunday School—this time as a teacher. I looked forward to it, but was also a little nervous. I asked for, and received, lots of advice. The most memorable was that teaching is about listening—teacher and students listening to God and letting the Christ, Truth, bring divine inspiration to lead and direct the conversation.
A New Testament writer urged, “Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth” (I John 3:18, New International Version), encouraging a living faith instead of relying on words. And the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, counseled, “Sincerity is more successful than genius or talent” (Message to The Mother Church for 1900, p. 9). So when we see students and teachers in Sunday School as all having one Mind—the infinite and only Mind, God—it’s natural to expect each individual in the class to hear directly what they need from this Mind.
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