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One door in the church school class room opens to God. That door, the most important, is the teacher. Whatever else they teach, church school teachers should teach the central message of the Christian faith.

What is that message? Albert Schweitzer, after making a life study of the message of Jesus, has concluded that:

The essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus, and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that it is only through love that we can attain to communion with God.17

When Jesus was asked which commandment was first, he answered that the first is to love God and that the second is to love your neighbor. If teachers share that which is essential to Christianity, they will teach their pupils to love.

Teaching is…