Through all my books is a sense of wanting kids to know they are loved, and that there is great joy and hope, as opposed to that if you're good, then God will love you. I can't have a child come away with thinking it's about how good they are. "I should thank them for that Sunday school. "It's huge reason why I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible," she said. "That's how I got the idea, both that God was only loving if I was good, but at the same time, that Jesus was my best friend."įortunately, the teachings at the Church of England Sunday School led Lloyd-Jones down an extraordinary path into becoming the New York Times best-selling author she is today. "As a child, what I got from that was only rules," said Lloyd-Jones. The Baby's First Bible author went on to recall the formative years spent in a rigid Sunday school and its effect on her early outlook of Christianity. "I could relate to Jesus, but I didn't really understand about God being kind and loving." "I knew that Jesus loved me, but I thought God was a big task-master, that kind of idea," Lloyd-Jones explained. However, after moving from Uganda when she was four-years-old, Lloyd-Jones and her family began attending the Church of England, which the writer said was "very much about rules." It was there that the author formed a very strong bond with Jesus but harbored "skewed" beliefs about God.
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