BWCE OBJECTIVES

Fellow Christians,

The rise of the cults in our generation is directly related to the church's failure to prioritize doctrine. In the last 30 years or more, over 3000 cults have been organized in America. The effects of this "new religious movement" have penetrated the media, the business world, our school systems, the family, and a sleeping church.

 

to stand, and how they are to be used, or ask someone in leadership to give the 16 qualifications of a bishop (ten musts and six must-nots) or list the six ways leaders are to be an example of the believer; ask someone to enumerate the 16 points of what charity does and the seven warnings if one fails to have charity; ask someone the seven things one should add to his faith that will enable him to never fall ask, and see what kind of answers you get. The church is drastically failing in discipleship, and because people only have a general knowledge of what they believe, they have become easy prey for the cults. We want to change our Sunday school classes from listening centers to learning centers. By God’s grace and with your help, we can do it. Let’s get started now!

How Can We Correct The Problem?

To create a learning center, one must understand that speaking is not teaching and listening is not learning. In every teaching and learning environment, at least three conditions must exist:

•   1. Accountability= One must remember/retain the              information.

•   2.  A sense of need= One must see the benefit that will result.

•   3.  Application= One must use what they have learned, or it will be lost.

Part of the Great Commission is the church’s responsibility to equip the saved people to do the “work of the ministry.” One example of how this may be done is given in Eph 6:10-11:

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

What the Church lacks the most are Sunday School graduates. The first piece of armor is that one’s loins must be girded with truth. How many people in the pews who have been in Sunday school for 20 years or more could write the ten basic doctrines of the Christian faith with five sub-points? One of the main words in the pastoral epistles is “doctrine.” Knowing sound biblical doctrine is a necessary part of what is required to enable a Christian to stand against the wiles of the devil. So why is it true that if one were to ask people sitting in the pews to write the doctrines with sub-points, they could not do it? The answer is that they have not been equipped to do the “work of the ministry.” Just think of how much more productive the Church could be if members were taught (If you know it, you can say it.) their “spiritual a-b-c’s” and knew how to form those spiritual letters into words and then use them in sentences. Isn’t teaching, and I mean teaching, that results in knowledge (in your permanent memory) a significant part of what is commanded in these verses we so often quote?

Matt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Note: What one has been taught (what he knows and can say) stays in the permanent memory as long as it is used frequently.

If you want to transform your Sunday school classrooms into learning centers, we can help you get started. You will find that people want to learn, and they will love you for teaching them how to articulate their beliefs. The sign on every teacher’s door should say: A learning center where believers will become disciples of Christ and then disciple others for the rest of their lives.