Some random thoughts on children...

*Parents should disciple there own children. We teach them how to live work and play, why not include how to live for and love Jesus and fulfill His mission in the world?

*Parents should be the spiritual leader of the their children and refuse to let the Sunday School teacher take away that place.

*Parents should consider bringing their children to the entire corporate worship gathering instead of sending them off for the other gigs. Children need to learn how to worship, they need the inter-generational involvement, they need to hear the hymns of the faith, the need to see their parents sing, pray, cry and praise Jesus, not to mention communion.

*Stop and think about it, some children are carted off to the nursery and they never experience corporate worship entirely until they graduate and then it is so foreign they enter the workplace or college scene and often gravitate to the familiar and the familiar is not fulfilling corporate worship.

We let other people provide spiritual follower-ship training for our children and then we wonder why we have no spiritual influence in their lives as they grow older.

Does any of this make sense? Children may not understand everything, but they are getting more than we can imagine from the corporate gatherings. I can prove it, if you wish.