{"id":2419,"date":"2010-09-14T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2010-09-14T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:38:08","slug":"changes-i%e2%80%99d-like-to-see-in-sunday-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/09\/14\/changes-i%e2%80%99d-like-to-see-in-sunday-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see in Sunday School curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting bored with Sunday School.<\/p>\n<p>There. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said it. Now, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the scriptures lend themselves very well to proper reading when split up into entire works assigned for only one year. How can we get anything out of the Old Testament\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding all its allegory, poetry, symbolism and prophecy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhen we spend as much time \u00c2\u00a0on it as we do the Doctrine and Covenants.<\/p>\n<p>If I could wave a magic wand, here are some of the changes I would implement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend an entire year studying the Law of Moses, how it was fulfilled, and what has replaced it<\/li>\n<li>Spend an entire year studying the Psalms and Proverbs.<\/li>\n<li>Spend an entire year studying Isaiah<\/li>\n<li>Spend an entire year studying the Gospels<\/li>\n<li>Spend an entire year studying the Epistles<\/li>\n<li>Spend an entire year not only studying the revelations of the early Mormon church, but studying in a way to see how they relate to each other and how they helped with the growth and\u00c2\u00a0maturity\u00c2\u00a0of the church<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What would you like to see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting bored with Sunday School. There. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said it. Now, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the scriptures lend themselves very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/09\/14\/changes-i%e2%80%99d-like-to-see-in-sunday-school-curriculum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changes I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see in Sunday School curriculum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Changes I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see in Sunday School curriculum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/09\/14\/changes-i\u2019d-like-to-see-in-sunday-school-curriculum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Changes I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see in Sunday School curriculum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting bored with Sunday School. 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