Christian educators must use teaching strategies that lead to attitude and action changes. Sunday School classes primarily targeted toward changes in knowledge are using a secular education model, not a Christian education model. That statement needs to be modified somewhat. Many of our classes are educational in the sense that people are changing in knowledge. But people go out of our classrooms without getting involved in evangelism, social ministry, prayer, or Bible reading.
People come out of some of our classes holding prejudiced attitudes.
They may have changed their knowledge, but their attitudes and actions have not changed. This kind of class has been an educational class, not a Christian education class. Take a few minutes at the beginning of class to share prayer concerns and needs among class members. During this time people can have fellowship maybe over a cup of coffee, and catch up with each other's busy lives. By opening the class in this way you are helping people to love one another and share one another's burdens.