virtually every worship service, you know, that we've been a part of, there was sort of this sort of

spirit of like, please, please, please put your kids in child care.

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Fun question or fun, hopefully answer for you today based on the

question, and that's why worship services should embrace children. Now, this is a collision that happens a lot in evangelical spheres where you know you've been to a church service and they've got crying rooms in the back, kind of take your baby out. We don't want them in here or even the children. Now, of course, We'll talk about that in a second. If there's a ton of chaos going on, we need to be able to focus and listen.

But there is a middle ground, in my opinion, of how to integrate families together for worship. And it's really, really important. Now, this is actually a question we got in Home Room, our membership community. It was awesome discussion in there. I loved it. And there was a really, really cool comment that kind of someone popped in of a pamphlet that they actually read or was put on some seats. I think it, where was it like at a Jewish school or something like that, Jeremy? I can't remember. The synagogue, I think. Yeah. The shul. Yeah. Yes. So, but yeah, Jeremy, talk more about that. How do we, this is something that we need to be thinking about. And it's really practical and something that I think we should always be considering to understand what kind of children and families were forming.

Because hopefully, if you are people, you're going to rhythmic worship services and you are going to weekly gatherings of some sort.

And so what does that look like?

Yeah, guys. So like in the home room, somebody actually had their child kicked out of a

of a worship service where an usher said, please do not bring your child back. And she was describing,

hey, they weren't being very loud, but it's just not culturally not at all acceptable to have young

children in the worship service in the church they were attending. And somebody in

homeroom dropped this amazing pamphlet that they saw in the synagogue that Jeff was describing. And I want to

read a little bit of this to you. So just to contrast you guys, the way that Christians tend to think

about children in worship services and the way that oftentimes Jewish congregations or synagogues think about it.

So basically this pamphlet had two sections, one that was written to the parent and one that

was written to the people around the parent to help them be patient.

So it's very long.

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