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 12/17/09 12:19 PM |
| Rick | | Alabama | |  |  |
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It's not that God hasn't called us to work with young people. It's that the "Age Segregation" approach did not come from prayerful study of the Bible. It came from secular education, rock music, entertainment, and marketing.
Further, the idea of having the youth seperated from the rest of the churches life, has produced the very thing churches wanted to avoid. As soon as the youth come of age, they leave the church because for 18 yrs. they have been inundated with entertainment, and now they cannot relate to what the "Grown ups" are doing. The underlying rebellion of youth makes them say "If these dumb old folks don't start doing things the way we want, we will leave". The sad thing is that many churches are giving in to these rebellious demands in order to keep people in the church.
The Family Integrated churches are nothing new. They are doing church the way folks used to before the "Youth Group" era. All the family sets together, and the young people are not distracted by their peers; as is the case when all of the young people set together. Once again, the idea that "Youth need to be together" is something that is believed soley because it has been said for so long. Families and society ahve gotten along for millenia without that approach. |
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| 12/7/09 9:39 AM |
| Rick | | Alabama | | | |
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Many places in the mid-West and the South, here in the U.S., used to have "Blue Laws" which prohibited businesses from opening on Sunday. The only exeption was for works of emegency, and mercy. i.e. Fire, Police, Hospitals, ect. Since that has been overtutned, our economy has steadily suffered. Church attendace has suffered as well. Most times it's because retailers have no respect for christians and going to church. Sometimes, christians don't value the neccissity of being in chuirch, so they take a job that keeps them out of church.
I know of one fellow that complains that he can't get his family in church, yet he set them up in a buisiness where they have to work on Sundays. Overturning the "Blue Laws" had nothing to do with a desire to keep Government out of Religion. It was all about Greed. And that Greed, has led to economic trouble. |
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