I am just curious, I've been doing a study on the 10 commandments for a bible study and it has been just another example of how vital I believe Christian education is. I'm not talking about informal education either. I'm talking about having an organized curriculum. My problem lies in the fact that we as a people require our children to be formally educated in school. If we want to be able to function in our society we need to have at least a basic education. So my question is why doesn't the church require the same thing? I'm not talking about seminary level in-depth learning, I just think that there should be certain requirements. So far I have not witnessed any church "requiring" it's members to attend certain classes. I have not witnessed any formal testing. There is no pass or fail. There is no set curriculum. Basically there are adult Sunday school classes that can be about anything and it's for only the members that want to attend.

My main argument is that there should be basic fundamental truths that need to be learned by every Christian. As I was researching the 10 Commandments, I did some research on the early American colonial education. What I found was that children were required to go to school and their primers had tons of biblical truths in them including the shorter catechism and the apostles creed. This was done at school, not in the church. I hadn't really thought about that until now and I thought "Wow, that's awesome." So again I ask, why in the world are we not formally training our members in the church today?

Dave.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16