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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Highly variable. My church growing up was chill. We learned to play dreidel and talked about Acts. Very little memorization.

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Then I went to Awanas with a friend. Pre internet times. Holy hell, that was rough. Station to station with rote memorization tasks followed by a serman wherein we were all told if our names were not already in The Book of Life we were all going straight to Hell and there was nothing we could do about it. That was a first and last Awanas for me as a kid.

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Highly variable. Like you, I heard nothing of submission from my childhood church. But that preacher at Awanas? Wouldn’t surprise me.