Why do young children remain in the sanctuary during the worship service?
Families today spend very little time together. Unfortunately, the church has contributed to this problem. During the week there are often so many activities that families are kept from spending hardly an evening or two together. Then on sundays families are further separated by age-segregated programs. It is not surprising that so many families have the problems they do when even in church they do not spend time together. One way to overcome this problem is for the whole family to worship, learn, and fellowship together. This has actually been the approach that the church has followed for most of its history. It is only when the church began to model state-supported schools that it began to divide families by ages. It may be argued that with this segregation of families within the church came a whole host of problems. The most serious of these problems is that fathers began to relinquish their responsibility to lead their families spiritually. There are number of common objections to
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- My child is older than 6, but has difficulty sitting still in the worship service. Can she still exit with the children after the children’s sermon and attend Children’s Church?
- Why do young children remain in the sanctuary during the worship service?
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