BY GEORGE!

George Mason, Senior Pastor

Brick by Brick

“I must have missed school the day we covered that.”

It’s the kind of comment we make with embarrassment when someone points out a subject-verb disagreement or we can’t place the country of Georgia on our mental map.

Knowledge builds upon itself. Everything is connected. Mastery of a subject is more than answering multiple-choice questions correctly; it is in knowing how things fit together.

As we begin a new year in Christian education, every Sunday holds fresh possibilities for learning the faith and growing in the knowledge of God.

Children especially need to know the ABCs of the Bible, the grammar of faith and geography of grace. But they won’t make it their own if they miss class every other week. Same goes for children of all ages.

My seminary Greek teacher told us the first day of class that learning a language is like building a house: you lay the foundation first, and then you build it day by day, brick by brick. There are no shortcuts to it, no ways around the work of it. But if you stay with it little by little over time, fluency follows.

Are you fluent in the faith? Before you can speak it like a native, you have to learn it word by word, attending to the Word in the word and the Spirit in the letter.

See you next week, and the next, and the next …

Matriculating,