Let Them Worship!

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Our topic du jour is considered from both the housewife and the pastors’ perspectives.The trend of dividing congregations by age groups and removing children from corporate worship started a few decades ago, and it has shaped the practice of many churches to this day. But is this trend a biblical model? What are the benefits of having our children present in the corporate worship?The crew tell us what their churches are doing to engage little ones during the service, and offer some tips for helping kids get the most out of family worship.Show NotesLinda Finlayson’s books for childrenGod’s Timeline: The Big Book of Church HistorySign up for the opportunity to win a copy of The Nursery of the Holy Spirit by Daniel Hyde which is a generous gift from Wipf and Stock Publishers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:36.9	Music You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.1	My name is Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by Carl Truman and Amy Bird.
0:50.3	Hi, Carl, hi, Amy.
0:51.6	Hey, Todd.
0:52.6	Carl, greet me.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.0	Hello.
0:55.4	We want to talk just briefly with you today a little bit about engaging children in the corporate worship of the church.
1:03.8	One trend that really began to take off in the late 80s and coming into the 90s was the trend to remove children more and more
1:13.5	from the corporate worship of the church. And this was done in various ways. And before we go on,
1:19.9	please, I'm not anti-nursary or anything like that. So I just want to establish that right off
1:26.1	the bat. If you're a mother and you've got a six-month-old, I hope your church has a nursery to help out on Sundays. That said, there's been this trend to get kids out of the way. I mean, we're distracted by them. They make noises. And plus, they can't understand anything. And so what better than to have an alternative for three-year-olds and four-year-olds and six-year-olds
1:47.2	than have to sit through a big boring worship service?
1:50.7	Because after all, they're not going to get anything out of it anyway.
1:54.1	So when it's framed like that, it's really hard oftentimes for people disagree with that.
1:58.8	No, it isn't.
2:01.0	One, we don't divide up the body of Christ, and I think it's a good discipline to have kids
2:05.5	in the worship service.
2:06.8	It's important for them to be there, to be used to sitting under the Word of God.
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