Laura Bennett Facebook ad: “If your child has never missed a Sunday, please read this”

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1701408720953992

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Facebook, Instagram, Audience Network, Messenger and Threads

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0

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18

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I taught Sunday school for twenty years. Let me tell you about the student I think about the most. Her name was Emma. Six to twelve, she was in my class. She won every Bible trivia game. Memorized the books of the Bible for a candy bar and then kept reciting them for fun. Baptized at ten, and she cried doing it. If you'd asked me which child in that room would still be walking with God at twenty-five, I'd have said Emma without blinking. I ran into her last month. Cereal aisle, grocery store. She lit up — "Mrs. Bennett! It's Emma, from church!" — and I hugged her and asked if she'd found a good church up at school. Her face changed. Gentle, the way you get gentle with someone you're about to disappoint. "I'm… not really religious anymore. It wasn't dramatic. Freshman year a guy in my dorm just asked me how I knew any of it was actually true. And I realized I didn't. I knew all the stories. I'd never once been given a reason. So when he pushed, there was nothing underneath. It just fell over." She smiled, said it was good to see me, and pushed her cart toward the registers. I stood in that aisle a long time. Because here is what twenty years in that classroom finally taught me, too late for Emma. We are very good at teaching children the stories. We were never built to teach them why the stories are true. And in the world these kids are walking into, a faith made of only stories does not survive one honest question. It is never the child you're worried about. It's the one you're proud of — the memorizer, the every-Sunday kid, the one you're sure of — quietly running on stories, one confident question away from walking out. I don't run a felt-board anymore. I send families home with one thing instead: a workbook they do together, ten minutes a week. The child gets the Bible story, then a real objection a skeptic would actually raise, then three pieces of real evidence — Bible, science, history, logic — and then the child says the answer out loud. I've watched what it does. Kids who used to recite now reason. Last week a nine-year-old in my class answered a question her own father couldn't, and did it kindly. That never used to happen. I can't go back to that cereal aisle and give Emma the reasons she needed at six instead of stories. But your child is still in the pew. Still asking. Still yours to reach. Give them the why now — while there's still time to put something underneath.

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faith-path.co

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