Less is More

Read this passage from the book "7 Practices of Effective Ministry":

"I went to church my entire childhood, and do you know what I learned?"

"What?"

"Not a thing. I know I heard a lot of things about God, but I don't remember one of them."

"Maybe you didn't have good teachers."

"How good do you have to be to teach a child ONE THING? No, the problem wasn't that they couldn't teach me one thing. The problem was they tried to teach me everything. Every week was a different story and a different lesson with a different picture. All I knew is that if I sat there quietly, I'd get a cookie at the end."

Familiar scenario, isn't it?