I wrote an article recently on Children & baptism in response to a Children’s ministry Think Tank question.
Yesterday I read an article from a denominational perspective where a leader talked about the low number of children baptisms. One of his responses to boost baptism rates was for church members to have more children in their families.
Today I read an article from a children’s ministry perspective talking about the church drop-out rate of kids during their first semester of college.
In response to these perspectives, it takes a church…the entire church…working together to minister, train, and disciple children throughout their lives from the younger preschool classes through the college years through the adult years. It takes everyone in the church, all leaders, working together. Everyone is on the same team, God’s Team. Christian education is the ultimate responsibility of the child’s family, but the church family has the responsibility to train and disciple each individual family, equipping them to train their smaller families.
