Is Sunday School Destroying Our Kids?: How Moralism Suffocates Grace

How do we make grace part of Christian living? Does Sunday School encourage discipleship and teach our children faith?

People in the world often reject Christianity simply because they can't distinguish it from mere morality. The world needs morality--oppression thrives when consciences are abandoned--but we need more than that alone. We need the gospel of grace. A gospel that has largely been lost amid the dos and don'ts and preoccupations of religious culture.

12 Essays on the Distinction Between Grace and Morality

Includes perspectives on topics such as:

• Why Do Our Children Leave the Church?
• Graceless Goodness: The Problem with Moralism
• The False Gospel of "Just Do It"
• The Temptations of Christian Publishing
• The Ugliness of Religious Righteousness
• The Insidious Danger of "I'd Never Do That"
• We Read the Bible the Wrong Way

Comments from Readers

I like what Sam Williamson has to say about how good people--people like us--may be piling burdens on our children they can't possibly bear. Has the good news of the gospel magically morphed into bad news for them? Read Sam's provocative new book to find out.
-Ann Spangler, Author, Praying the Names of God (and many other books)

These days we hear so much and think so little. We consume without digesting and then wonder why our body is acting strangely. In this book, Sam helps us look carefully, graciously, and wonder-fully at the Gospel and the beliefs of our heart.
-Gary Barkalow, founding director of The Noble Heart, and Author, It's Your Call.

This has got to be one of the best books on raising Godly children (or simply new believers) I've ever read. Thank you. -Brian
This is as clearly and as beautifully communicated as I have heard the Gospel for a long time. -Bob

This is such an excellent read I wish all Christians could read it. What a great blessing to see this truth presented in a way that it is so easily understood. Thank you for this thoughtful book. - Linda

This is a fitting warning that Christian education could fall into moralization (and idolizing "heroes of faith"). The same warning is applicable even to the whole teaching/preaching ministry of many churches. - Ray

From the Book

People often pit grace against moralism. And they should. Moralism circumvents heart-changed morality. We need moral men and women, but moralism damages the foundation of heart-change.

It's okay to pit grace against moralism, but let's not pit grace against morality. Grace is the source of real morality, and grace--thank God --breaks the bars of moralism that imprison us.

Is Sunday School Destroying Our Kids? exposes moralism for its false pretensions--the sham that it is--and it moves our hearts to believe the gospel, for the first, or the hundred-and-first, time.

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