What They Didn't Teach Me in Sunday School

Life's lost lessons

What they didn't teach me in Sunday School
By Rob Parsons
Hodder & Stoughton. 164 pages. £5.99
ISBN 0 340 64276 9

This is an easy-to-read, slim volume of helpful anecdotes and quotations from many sources, mixed with true stories from the author's own life.
As I am not married and have no children, this was my first taste of Rob Parsons' literary talents (he has also written two best-sellers: The sixty-minute father and The sixty-minute marriage). I particularly enjoyed the opening piece on his early days at Sunday School, and would have liked the book to continue with more of the same, rather than becoming a compilation of other people's observations - many of which I had met before. But I can appreciate that for many readers, Rob is breaking new ground in what he is saying.
It was immensely encouraging to read how such a well-known speaker has had times of turmoil, when God has seemed far away, or answers to questions have not come easily. I admire his honesty in this respect, for baring his inner self and daring to be real. Too many Christians hide behind the facade of a false smile and the words: 'I'm fine.' Bravo, Rob, for admitting you are human!

Shirley Collins

© Evangelicals Now - April 1998
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Main Articles

• An exciting future
  An interview with Stephen Gaukroger
• Theology and Mo/Po (modernism and post-modernism)
  An interview with Ranald Macaulay
• Narnia's man
  Reflections on the literary writings of C S Lewis and their relationship to evangelicalism
• A post-modern scandal
  Truth and relativism in the post-modernist era (with illustrations from the current White House scandals) (reprinted from World Magazine)
• Mission field - Clapham
  The background and future plans of Courland Grove Baptist Church
• God is love
  The relationship between the holiness, righteousness and love of God
• Praying with Vijay
  Prayer - in conclusion (Part 4 of Series)
• Speaking personally . . . (Bulldog for April)
  Speaking personally to individuals about our Christian lives
• God's TV station?
  An account of the Christian Channel Europe (CCE) - a British-based satellite channel - and the heretical teaching appearing on this channel
• Second thoughts from a cloning society
  An imaginary review in the year 2060 of the results of cloning humans (adapted and reprinted from the New Zealand Baptist)
• Young people in the cells?
  The positive value and the dangers of introducing cell groups among young people in churches

Other articles

• Romanian Rescue - An account of a Christian family's adoption of an orphan from Romania
• A Godward Life - 120 Daily Readings
• Evangelicals in Exile
• What They Didn't Teach Me in Sunday School
• Unnatural Enemies - An Introduction to Science and Christianity
• Special Assemblies - Primary School Assemblies - Resources for taking school assemblies that tackle issues from a Christian perspective
• Amistad
• William Grimshaw of Haworth
• The Promised Child - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• The Big Sister's Secret - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• God's Miracle Man - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• Our Loving God - Bible stories retold for children to bring out foundational truths about God
• To Know and Serve God - A Biography of James I Packer
• Contemporary Worship Music - A Biblical Defence