Never Reach the Goal

Scripture References: Ecclesiastes 12:12; John 15:2, 7

Robert Hutchins wrote that school systems usually take for granted that learning stops after formal education. That is unfortunate, he wrote, “because most of the important things that human beings ought to understand cannot be comprehended in youth.… The great books of ethics, political philosophy, economics, history, and literature do not yield up their secrets to the immature.”

That perspective challenges church leaders and their teaching programs! Do we offer teaching that merely satisfies people, or teaching that encourages them to learn as they are satisfied? Some may content themselves with what another teaches, but true Christlike teaching incites a desire for increased knowledge that grows toward the teacher’s level and beyond, becoming a teacher one’s self, beginning the cycle again.

Courtesy of Speaker’s Sourcebook of New Illustrations by Virgil Hurley © 1995 by Word, Incorporated.
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