Emphasis Preaching Journal

One of the difficulties of teaching confirmation class in a large suburban church is that each year for a number of young people, confirmation is their first experience with the church. Because their parents had drifted away from regular worship attendance themselves, or because their children did not want to go to church and the parents did not want to force them, or because Sunday morning sports practice and Sunday morning competitions kept them too busy, as many as a third of the class have little or no experience of worship or Christian Education.