Children’s church
When it comes to the idea of a children’s church … ( having the children excused from the main worship service to have their own service…) here are some thoughts:
* This was written in the 1700’s by Jonathan Edwards ( Vol 1 page 393)
“ What has more especially given offense to many, and raised a loud cry against some preachers, as though their conduct was intolerable, is their frightening poor innocent children with talk of hell fire and eternal damnation. But if we believe that all of us are by nature children of wrath .. and lost without Christ, then this complaint reveals a great deal of weakness and inconsideration. Why should we conceal the truth from them ? Will those children who have been dealt tenderly with in this respect and lived and died insensible of their misery till they come to feel it in hell, ever thank parents and others for their tenderness, in not letting them know their danger ?
A child that has a dangerous wound may need the painful lance, as well as grown persons; and that would be a foolish pity, in such a case, that should hold back the lance and throw away the life --- I have seen the happy effects of dealing plainly and thoroughly with children in the concerns of their souls, without sparing them at all, in many instances; and never knew any ill consequences of it, in any one instance.”
