Our Youth Sunday School class, which now involves fifteen
students, has undertaken a new class format which will both focus
and broaden student activities.
Each Sunday’s class work will include two studies; a
review of a chapter of Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life and a chapter study in When
Worldviews Collide
by Dr. Ergun M. Caner, Dean of the Liberty Baptist Theological
Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Each Sunday,
as a class
starter, students turn to the assigned chapter in PDL and work in their personal journals, copying the memory verse and
answering the life-changing question at the end of the chapter.
Then the class turns discusses the assigned chapter in WWC, which they have studied at home through the week.
WWC is a study of the Christian walk in comparison to world religions and
thought systems which enables students to learn more about our own
faith and how to witness effectively in today’s world.
We discuss key questions and statements in the assigned
reading.
Dr. Caner, author of WWC, came to our country from Turkey. His
father was a Muslim missionary to the U. S. and his family members
were, of course, devout followers of Islam.
When Dr. Caner was a teen, a school friend witnessed to him
over a long period of time. Caner
finally consented to visit the friend’s church and soon accepted
Christ as Lord. At
that point his family disowned him.
The class is open to all youth interested in understanding
the Christian walk and learning more about world religions.
Those who are interested may contact Pres or Carolyn
Nowlin, class leaders.
