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Teaching Children By Norman Fultz (Norman Fultz wrote about a fireman and others who helped rescue a child in a flood. All were so glad to have had a part in saving a life. Then he made this application to those who teach children’s classes. Billy) Now another thought about that infant being rescued and given a chance at life. Those of you who teach small children and youth, do you ever consider as you teach them those little lessons that you may be giving to that child a chance at life eternal? You may be setting the abutments upon which the bridge over the chasm of sin shall ultimately be built as he/she grows into an age of accountability and then responds in obedience to Jesus. Some day, perhaps many years down the road, that child you taught may very well remember with great joy and heart-felt gratitude your efforts on his/her behalf. (I still remember my "card class" teacher when I was very young. Many years later, when she was an aged saint, stooped and gray, she happened to be a member where I then preached. I remember her husband who taught the class I was in as a youth, and his personal joy in having had a part in my teaching when I first began trying to peach and had occasion to go back to that congregation and preach by appointment. And there’s the lady who was teaching my class at another congregation we attended several years later—the first teacher I remember who required us to do some real memory work by memorizing the first twelve verses of Matthew 5.)So, if you wonder is it worth it; if you find it discouraging to prepare only to have the students frequently absent; try and remember what you’re doing. You’re a bridge builder. Do your part well. Someday when you see those children grow up and render obedience, then look back with a certain degree of personal pride and satisfaction at having had a part in helping that young person to lay hold on eternal life. –Norman Fultz |