FAMILY UNITY
6 Church Must
Lead Way’
The church should lead the community in putting the family back together as a unit, said the Churches of Christ director of Christian education (the Rev. R. M. Wendelborn) in his report to the Dominion conference. Society, he said, tended to fragment the family and divide it into groups on the assumption that different ages would not get on together. But a new attitude among religious education emphasised the family as a group.
This had an important bearing on the work of the Sunday school, he said. The church needed to question the practice of separating children from adults at worship services, and whether it was indirectly giving a false picture of church. An “awesome gap” in the teaching skills of Sundayschool teachers must be closed if new discoveries in group methods were to be applied to church life. Training, he said, must not be to get hard workers to work harder, but to help them work with better insights and skills.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30593, 9 November 1964, Page 8
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