What does the Bible say about sunday school?

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The Bible teaches that children and believers of every age should be formed by God’s living Word within the loving care of the church and home. Scripture is God-breathed and equips His people for faith and obedience (2 Timothy 3:16), while parents are especially called to train children in the way of wisdom (Proverbs 22:6). Jesus warmly welcomed little children and commanded that they not be hindered from coming to Him (Mark 10:14). Teaching should therefore center on Christ, faithfully receiving the apostolic Word as God’s Word (1 Thessalonians 2:13), not merely human traditions (Colossians 2:1-23). The church’s shepherds must guard and nourish the flock (Acts 20:28), trusting God’s Word to instruct, correct, and give hope (Romans 15:4).

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  • 2 Timothy 3:16

    Every writing inspired by God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,

  • Proverbs 22:6

    Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Mark 10:14

    But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

  • Romans 15:4

    For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  • Hebrews 4:12

    For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

  • Proverbs 13:22

    A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13

    For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

  • Revelation 22:19

    If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

  • Acts 20:28

    Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

  • Colossians 2:1-23

    [1] For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; [2] that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, [3] in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. [4] Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. [5] For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. [6] As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, [7] rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. [8] Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. [9] For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, [10] and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; [11] in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; [12] having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. [13] You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, [14] wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; [15] having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. [16] Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, [17] which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. [18] Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, [19] and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth. [20] If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, [21] "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" [22] (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? [23] Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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