This article immediately caught my attention upon scanning the dozens of articles on the Baptist Standard website.
This is incredibly interesting to me to see how other churches are trying new approaches to connecting their children in the church beyond the point of high school graduation. I read a book this summer, "The Slow Fade", and it discussed how many of our churches focus so intently on a students childhood through high school years that they totally drop the ball in connecting them to a successful transition to college. Though I do believe that cutting out Sunday School is very extreme. It would be like saying that schools are not teaching students the valuable lessons they need to survive in life, so parents need to man up and homeschool so as to ensure proper upbringing and training. I think the elimination of a proper youth minister or children's minister would hurt a ministry's purpose.
The Baptist Standard is a very convenient means to see what is happening in the Baptist world and how to stay connected with what is happening and changing. With the paper posted on the web, it makes it relevant to our culture by making it available to many different audiences.
This is incredibly interesting to me to see how other churches are trying new approaches to connecting their children in the church beyond the point of high school graduation. I read a book this summer, "The Slow Fade", and it discussed how many of our churches focus so intently on a students childhood through high school years that they totally drop the ball in connecting them to a successful transition to college. Though I do believe that cutting out Sunday School is very extreme. It would be like saying that schools are not teaching students the valuable lessons they need to survive in life, so parents need to man up and homeschool so as to ensure proper upbringing and training. I think the elimination of a proper youth minister or children's minister would hurt a ministry's purpose.
The Baptist Standard is a very convenient means to see what is happening in the Baptist world and how to stay connected with what is happening and changing. With the paper posted on the web, it makes it relevant to our culture by making it available to many different audiences.
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