Jesus Is The Source Of Enlightenment — Part Two

“I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness.” (John 12:46)

John Ortberg writes: “In 1780, a Jesus-follower in Great Britain named Robert Raikes could not stand the cycle of poverty and ignorance that was destroying little children, a whole generation. He said, ‘The world marches forward on the feet of little children.’ So he took children who had to work six days a week in filth. Sunday was their free day. He said, ‘I’m going to start a school for free to teach them to read and write and learn about God.’ He did, and he called it Sunday school.

“Within 50 years, there were 1.5 million children being taught by 160,000 volunteer teachers who had a vision for the education of a generation. Sunday school was not a privatized, optional program for church kids. It was one of the great educational volunteer triumphs of the world.

“The alphabet of the Slavic peoples is called Cyrillic. It was named for Saint Cyril, who was a missionary to the Slavs and discovered they had no written alphabet. Thus, he created one for them so they would be able to read about Jesus in their own language.

“A Methodist missionary, Frank Laubach, cited an extraordinary encounter with God about a century ago that put him on a mission to lift the world out of ignorance. He began a worldwide literacy movement. The phrase ‘Each one teach one’ flows out of the extraordinary life of this man. He traveled to more than 100 countries and led to the development of primers in 313 languages. He became known as ‘the apostle to the illiterates.’”

Prayer
Heavenly Father, as children, we’re VERY important to You. Help me to support and invest in the Christian Education of children. In Jesus’ name, Amen.