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“Children’s Church” is something offered with good intentions, I’m sure.
But it’s bad ecclesiology and smacks of consumerism.
Train your children to approach the heavenly throne in a unified, multi-generational community.
But it’s bad ecclesiology and smacks of consumerism.
Train your children to approach the heavenly throne in a unified, multi-generational community.
Lol apparently I threw a grenade in the room and then went to lunch.
It’s playtime, but I’ll come back and respond before long.
It’s playtime, but I’ll come back and respond before long.
I don’t think our individual ability to comprehend our own worship is primary w/r/t assembling for the breaking of bread. Nor is individual education the focus of such worship. So the developmentally appropriate category of objections isn’t particularly persuasive to me.
What we do on Sunday is done collectively as the assembly.
But even if I’m way off on that, it’s not obvious to me that Children’s Church actually accomplishes those goals better. It *may* be better at delivering easily digestible “developmentally appropriate” propositions about God or His people to children.
But that could be done at other times. And it comes at a terrible opportunity cost of severing at least a few teachers from the assembly, of denying our children the ability to learn and be formed by our behavior in worship and by the worship patterns themselves . . .
. . . denying them the chance to engage in the sacred rhythms of worship, yes even worship they don’t yet comprehend. Songs we don’t understand still form us. So does corporate prayer. So do sermons, communion, etc.
We are embodied creatures and social creatures, and worship isn’t merely mental nor merely personal. The communal acts of worship shape us in more holistic ways, beyond the imparting of facts and doctrines (though also important).
