Sunday School Stories

I realized recently as I was reading the Bible that there is a problem as we grow older. For those who grew up in church, there are distinct memories of many popular Bible stories. We remember Daniel and the lion's den. We can tell you about David and Goliath. We can give you details about many conversations and miracles of Jesus. All of this is exciting and good to both learn and remember throughout our lives. However, there is an important step I feel we tend to miss. We never return to these stories seriously as adults and ask the next level of questions. We may know the story and lessons from the story. Those are excellent and should be recounted. However, we need to further ask why the story was there in the first place. We need to explore why certain stories are next to each other. We need to mine the depths of the relationships and reasons behind the stories chosen. It is imperative that we don't neglect those stories we think we know so well merely because we are not sure what questions we should be asking.