The only predictor that children will avoid risky behaviors such as drugs, early sexual activity, gangs, school dropout, violence, and even suicide is church attendance which is to say belief in and knowledge of God and Jesus. But Sunday School is also about more than belief and knowledge. It is about relationship, our helping our children to form a relationship with Jesus and with God.
Relationships take time to develop.
Relationships are built by blocks of trust cemented with the mortar of love. Especially at the pace most of our too busy lives now travel, it is not always easy to get ourselves and the family up and ready on Sunday morning. But it will, in both the short and long term, prove to be the most important effort and rewarding commitment of our week and of our blessed child rearing years. That knowledge is dynamic, participatory, and synergistic. It happens when groups of believers get together to explore, share, pray, tell of their own divine encounters and witnessed miracles, or to sing of the glory and love of God and Jesus.