Jesus Is Not the Answer to Every Sunday School Question: Book 1: Foundations

While reading Ham & Beemer’s “Already Gone,” author Dan Kreft realized that the Sunday school curriculum that he co-authored was failing to give his students the tools they needed to defend their faith outside of the four walls of the church. Feeling convicted that he was part of the problem of two-thirds of youth deciding to abandon the faith before they even reached high school, Kreft jettisoned his curriculum and started over again. From that point on, he focused intently on teaching his students how to give reasonable answers to reasonable questions and critiques of Christianity. He also became keenly interested in getting parents involved, and to that end began to email a synopsis of each lesson on Sunday to the students’ parents on Monday night. These emails became the foundation upon which “‘Jesus’ Is Not the Answer to Every Sunday School Question” is based.In “Book 1: Foundations,” Kreft tells the story of his journey as a Sunday school teacher, introduces the unusual class format in a sample letter to the parents, and then goes on to tackle the following questions: Why should anyone believe the Bible? What and when was the beginning? Did God use the big bang?, and Why is the age of the earth is such a big deal? Kreft also discusses the problems with distant starlight for both young- and old-earth proponents, and offers six reasons why the idea of millions of years is incompatible with Scripture.