These past few months, I've been thinking a bit about the place of children in the Sunday service - should they stay for the whole thing or be hived off mid flow for their entertainment classes sorry Sunday School. One of the questions that immediately arises in grappling with this question, is the issue of Scripture's sufficiency. Does the Bible speak clearly on this issue and is one able to establish if it is right/wrong/wise/unwise to have the types of services common today where the people of God are split up so as to receive - apparently - age appropriate training. Pondering this whole of sufficiency I was recently reminded of this brilliant quote by Van Til:
The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication. It tells us not only of the Christ and his work, but it also tells us who God is and where the universe about us has come from. It tells us about theism as well as about Christianity. It gives us a philosophy of history as well as history. Moreover, the information on these subjects is woven into an inextricable whole. It is only if you reject the Bible as the word of God that you can separate the so-called religious and moral instructions of the Bible from what it says, e.g., about the physical universe (Cornelius Van Til, The Defense Of The Faith).
So what does the Bible teach about the validity of Sunday Schools? With my hand on the Word, I'm hoping to soon find out and if you have any wise words from Scripture, please let me know.
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