How To Bring Your Sunday School Lessons To Life

Need help bringing your Sunday School lessons to life and making them more enjoyable for your students? Then you’ll enjoy this article!

The easiest (and most enjoyable) way to inject more fun and interest into your Sunday School curriculum is to personalize the stories. Find the things about them that are relevant and important to you.

The stories aren’t timeless because they’re in the Bible. They’re in the Bible because they’re timeless. They contain intrigue that applies no matter when or how you lived.

Personalizing a Bible Lesson For Kids

What does your Bible lesson tell you about today? What about it interests you personally? Did Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt remind you of going off to college? Did it remind you of a trip you took when your parents were being like the Egyptians, not wanting to “let their daughter go?”

Bringing your own story into a Bible story will bring your passion into the Bible story. Your class might be nine-year-olds who haven’t a speck of a thought about going off to college—and maybe you don’t need to even mention your personal hook to that story.

But the silent comparison will have infused you to feel its relevance, and then it’s easier to jump into your student’s shoes. They might have had to stare down the bullies on the playground who remind everyone of Pharaoh. The more personal and relevant you can make the stories, the more vested your students will be in them.

A word about all the ‘words’

Often, lessons are presented to Sunday school teachers today with “teacher words” drawn out clearly, so you don’t have to do all of this thinking if such doesn’t come easily to you. Such might make you think there is no room for individuality in presenting a Sunday school lesson. The authors of any of these texts would be the firsts to admit: The point of providing words is to help those with lack of training and/or confidence. It is not to thwart individuality and the artistic instincts of a teacher.

If your Sunday school utilizes one of these programs, think of your youth pastor answering the question: “Which do you want: Teachers to stick to the text utterly, and at the expense of their artistic input?” Very few leaders would answer that question “yes.” A horrified “no!” might be expected.

Use what tools you need, but infuse those lessons with your own gifts and experiences to show students you care. And if you need any help pulling together your lessons, or are looking for games, activities or crafts to use, be sure to check out my Sunday School lessons page.