Warning signs for failing Sunday School Class
adapted from Tom Rainer

There is a common pattern for most of the warning signs. Class members are more concerned about their preferences and desires. They are inwardly focused. They ask what the class can do for them, instead of asking how God can use them sacrificially and radically through the ministries of the class and church.

True Christianity is a faith that always seeks to put others first. Sadly, in many of the Sunday School classes i churches across our land, members are more concerned about getting their own personal needs and preferences met.

Church leaders should be concerned for Sunday School classes . . .

• If the teacher does not have adequate time to be in the Word or if he chooses not to do so.
• If only a few of the class members are actively sharing their faith.
• If corporate prayer is not a major emphasis in the class.
• If the class has more meetings than new disciples.
• If the leadership of the church does not have a coherent plan for what is taught in small groups and Sunday school classes.