{"id":33875,"date":"2022-09-10T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-childrens-ministry-is-vital\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:06:13","slug":"why-childrens-ministry-is-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-childrens-ministry-is-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Children’s Ministry Is Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Church and Culture<\/em> blog, James Emery White recently wrote: “You can drop the ball in the service, but ace it with the kids, and still have a chance that they’ll return. But no matter how good the service is, if the children’s ministry is bad, they won’t come back—unless they’re people without children.<\/p>\n

“Too many people treat children’s ministry as a necessary evil. It’s severely underfunded, understaffed and underappreciated.<\/p>\n

“Wake up. Children are the heart of your growth engine.<\/p>\n

“If a ‘none’ ever were to come to your church uninvited, it would probably be for the sake of their kids. And if a ‘none’ comes because they were invited, what you do with their children will be a deal-breaker.<\/p>\n

“In other words, you live and die by the strength of your children’s ministry. I know, you’re thinking they shouldn’t make such consumer decisions. But you’re forgetting they aren’t Christ-followers; all they have is consumerism. And meeting their needs in this way isn’t compromising the gospel one bit. It’s being strategic.<\/p>\n

“And, I might add, it’s bringing the message of the gospel, in age-appropriate ways, to the lives of those kids.<\/p>\n

“Your church’s children’s ministry is the most important sub-ministry in the life of your church. Now, start treating it that way.” (Click to read the full post.)<\/p>\n

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In his Church and Culture blog, James Emery White recently wrote: “You can drop the ball in the service, but ace it with the kids, and still have a chance that they’ll return. But no matter how good the service is, if the children’s ministry is bad, they won’t come back—unless they’re people without children. … Continue reading “Why Children’s Ministry Is Vital”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}