What happens when we....?

What happens in a disciple driven church gathering as we worship...

Too much to write about is a good answer. But on Saturday all three groups, True Vine, Gamaliel's Counsel and the Race shared in worship about God's work among us this past week. We sang, we prayed, we worshiped and adored the King of Kings and Lord of Lord's. The Word of God was broken open before us. The Holy Spirit broke in. We celebrated communion. Nothing we did focussed on us, everything we did focussed on Jesus. But something was different. Something is always different.

God led someone(at the last minute) to gather the children in the center of the room. As all the children were gathered the question was asked, "Why do we pray?" The children answered: "For people who are sick, for those who need Jesus, for people who are hurting."

The children were asked, "Who is the most important person you know?" They answered, "God"!

Now let's pray, you pray to God, you pray out loud to the most important person you know, the leader commented. Several prayed. One prayed for lost people, another prayed for the sick and others prayed...!

Later in our worship gathering, Levi almost 6 (the oldest among the children who gather) raised his hand and asked if he could pray again. Of course you can, the leader stated. Levi bowed his head and prayed for his great grandmother who is far from God and then he asked God to send more missionaries around the world. Levi learned in our worship that he can also pray in the service and that is what he did. He also take scommunion because Levi knows Jesus.

In a Disciple Driven Church, the children are present along with the youth and adults and in that gathering the kids are hearing the praises of their parents and others and all about what God is doing in the world and all about why we gather to worship. We are teaching the parents to disciple their own children and we are showing them how to do it. Levi is almost 6 and already he is demonstrating more faith fruit that most kids his age. All this, while Levi's parents refuse to give to others their spiritual authority over their son.

Is it possible that children know the difference between those giving spiritual food and those who do not? When parents disciple their own children -their own children grow up honoring their input and recognizing their spiritual authority over them.

It is wrong to offer ministries that subtly take away from the parents their spiritual authority and God given right and God given expectation that they lead their own children to Jesus while daily discipling them to follow Jesus. When we pass our children off to someone else to provide the spiritual aspects of life it is in that moment that we subtly give away our spiritual authority over our children. What a tragedy! We do what we think is right and best, and, we could never be more wrong as we sacrifice of the souls of our kids. Parents must be committed to disciple their own children by being shown how to do it. They must be the ones their children look to for spiritual things.

You know I have more to say about this!

Ask me about it.