The Necessity of Intentional Church

Education

The Necessity of Intentional Church

Education

LearningLearningBecause we are committed to equipping the entire body

and because learning is one our core values, we will evaluate our current Sunday School classes to assess the

benefit they provide to the body, will propose core and elective classes that will be taught on a rotating basis,

and will promote Sunday School at 9:30 Sunday morning as the main learning time of the church in 2013.

Because we are committed to equipping the entire body and because learning is one our core values, we will

evaluate our current Sunday School classes to assess the benefit they provide to the body, will propose core and elective classes that will be taught on a rotating basis,

and will promote Sunday School at 9:30 Sunday morning as the main learning time of the church in 2013.

Believing

Worshiping Loving Learning

Witnessing

Passages to ConsiderActs 2:42   And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. [Attitude]

Acts 20:26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. [Responsibility and Scope]

Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.[Purpose and Scope]

Role of the Pulpit Ministry

Pulpit Ministry

•Purpose - Feeding toward spiritual transformation and worship.•Process - Selective

Church Education

•Purpose - Equipping toward biblical thinking and ministry•Process - Systematic

Role of Pulpit Ministry

• The pulpit ministry is a key element in learning, but is insufficient by itself.

• Insufficient in its scope

• Insufficient in its purpose

• Insufficient in its structure

How Are We Doing?• A noble history

• An overburdened ministry structure

• A mix of purposes

• An unguided and unsupervised ministry structure

Why Pastoral Oversight?• Because our learning time is as much

a ministry of the Word as the pulpit ministry.

• Because pastors are commanded to oversee the ministry of the Word.

• Because pastors will give an account of their leadership in the church.

What would a systematic church education look like?

• An allotted time slot

• A set rotation of core information

• A changing rotation of electives

How do we begin the process?

• Sensitive to the needs of established classes experiencing high levels of care

• Establishment of core and elective plan

• Utilizing existing and new teachers

• 2013 learning goal is one of integration