“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30, NIV)

Important Truth: Human beings were created to connect.

“The LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’” (Genesis 2:18 NIV)

“God decided…to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.” (Ephesians 1:5, NLT)

“Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others” (Rom. 12:4-5 NIV)

“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” (Galatians 3:26-27, NIV)

3 Benefits of Sunday School 1. Friendships are Forged “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” (Jn 15:15 NIV)

3 Benefits of Sunday School 2. Struggles are Shared “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love...” (Rom. 12:10 NIV)

3 Benefits of Sunday School 3. Accountability is Achieved “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. 6:2, NIV)

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Prov. 27:17, NIV)