The Smallest in the Fold

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Do children belong in Sunday morning worship? Is it worth the potential tantrums in the pew? We have Jason Helopolous on the line to help us answer this parental conundrum. Jason is Associate Pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing Michigan. He's also an author, husband and father. As that last role, Jason can sympathize with parents of young children. So when are children "old enough" to join worship? What about the theology behind "children's church”, and the misconception that children take away from worship? Fortunately, we have two children here today to give us their perspective on being in service … thanks for joining us, Carl & Todd!We have a several copies of Jason's book "Let the Children Worship" published by Christian Focus, that we are giving away. Be sure to enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a 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.
0:32.8	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:46.7	We are so glad that you are joining us today.
0:48.9	My name is Todd Pruitt, and I am joined as always by Amy Bird and Carl Truman.
0:54.2	Our goal is to have a conversation about things that count and as always keeping it casual.
1:00.4	We have a special guest with us today that we want to talk about his new book and the topic of the book.
1:06.5	His name is Jason Halopoulos.
1:08.4	Jason is an associate pastor at University Reform Church in East
1:12.1	Lansing, where there are no Calvinists. His book is entitled, Let the Children Worship. It is published
1:21.7	by Christian Focus. And as you can gather from the title, it has to do with including our children in worship and the importance of having them there.
1:30.5	Jason, thanks for joining us on this episode.
1:33.7	Glad you're here.
1:34.5	Well, that's a joy to be with you guys.
1:37.0	Quite a gathering here.
1:39.2	Yeah, quite a gathering is right.
1:42.0	Jason, why did you decide to write the book?
1:44.7	Let the children worship.
1:46.4	Yeah, I think for a couple of reasons.
1:48.3	One is I have seen the benefit of having my own children in worship services and just seeing the impact that it has upon them and the questions that it raises and watching them sing the great hymns of the faith
2:02.2	and conversations we were able to have about the word preached, et cetera. But probably even more
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