Is children's church biblical

Our church is wrestling through this issue, as many families have infants, some have wandering and noisy toddlers, there are rambunctious 5-year-olds, and we have three children of varying ages with special needs like autism and Down Syndrome. The struggle is: Most parents want a break and thus desire the separate time for children while the adult service is going on, yet the children workers wish they were in the adult service and feel limited in their ability to control the behavior of the children.

What should we do? I hope there is a strong leader in your church because weak leaders will never be able to stand up against the onslaught of criticism that is going to come if you try to do what I am going to suggest. When I came to Bethlehem as a pastor in , one of the first issues I had to deal with was about the children in worship.

And the people all wanted to know, what are we going to do? Or what are we going to do? So, my wife, Noel, and I teamed up. We teamed up because we both felt unbelievably strongly about this, and we staked our lives on it. That article that we wrote is at the Desiring God website. And I am going to quote from it, but I am going to leave off the very thing everybody wants to know; namely, how do you control kids?

And that is the part my wife wrote. And so, if what I say here is at least provocative enough to get your interest, then go to the website and search for the article and read what my wife had to say about that.

Disadvantages of children's church

But I think really the big issue is concepts of worship and concepts of parenting and concepts of how things are transmitted to kids. Contact us: support churchleaders. ChurchLeaders Newsletter. Get emails and offers from ChurchLeaders.