The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Children's Church

I'm agin "Children's Church". Even the name I find objectionable, for the Church of the LORD Jesus Christ is for [professing] believers and their children. Yes, I realize most Baptists would immediately raise an objection to this idea that "families" are an indissoluble unit, etc. I do not believe that Scripture warrants dividing families into age groups when it comes to corporate worship. If nothing else, looking at it from a practical standpoint... what better place to teach children about the true worship of God than in the assembly of the saints? What better place for parents to instruct, guide and discipline their children than in the formal worship of the God before whom they will have to give an account?

Children's 'church' invariably gives these impressionable minds the idea that God is "fun" and is not to be taken seriously. In the assembly of the saints it is the preaching elder's responsibility to preach the Word to ALL; to their understanding and them make appropriate application of that Word to ALL, whether elderly or very young.

I say, therefore, expose your children to the true, biblically mandated and regulated worship of God at your earliest convenience so that the Spirit of God might call them to repentance and faith and they will be taught properly by the Church as God has ordained for His saints and their children.

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