Something Else In Common…
I ran across this blog post from Suzanne over at Grace and laughed out loud. Our church has been dealing with this very issue lately, as a couple of families and children from the neighborhood have started coming very regularly to our services. Suzanne, if you see this post - take heart. I think it does get better slowly as the kids learn and feel more comfortable in a worship setting…
Here’s the post:
“This is the around the 3rd or 4th Sunday that youth from Glenwood have come to sit with me in the “Big Service” at Grace after middle school Sunday school. I am so very happy that they are coming and can see that they are really learning about God.
But I have a confession… I feel stared at and sometimes embarrassed by their lack of “Church Manners.”
Now I may not have children of my own, but I think that I have a good taste of what it is like for a mother to be in church and her kids to keep squirming or her baby to start fussing. She wants desperately to hear the sermon and to worship yet she is worried her kids are disturbing others and embarrassed as the woman three rows up turns and looks to see where the disturbance is coming from.”
Read the rest at Daring To Hope.
Written by Brian Beasley.
"But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." Matt. 6:33
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