“What is the object of assembling together?” asked Ellen White in an 1871 Review and Herald article. “We meet together to edify one another by a mutual interchange of thoughts and feelings, thus making one-another acquainted with our aspirations, our hopes, and gathering strength, with light, and courage from one another.” She called Sabbath School classes “meetings for conference and prayer” and stressed they should be “spiritual and social”.
The most successful Sabbath Schools include elements of outreach and soul winning. Sabbath Schools should be one of the “greatest instrumentalities, and the most effectual, in bring souls to Christ.” (Counsels on Sabbath School Work, p.10).
The Sabbath School has four-specific objectives.