What If?

WHAT If?

What if we responded to children in the following ways: 

• We decided they were too young to be put into the educational system … because it would mean providing age appropriate materials? 
• We did not teach them the basic skills of life … because we must allow them the freedom to “be children”? 
• We did not give them a family … because the adults did not want to be distracted by their presence? 
• We did not provide basic health care … because it costs us too much? 
• We did not give them appropriate attention… because we don’t know how to relate to them? 
• We did not equip them for the next stage of life… because we will do it when they get to that stage? 
• We never read a parenting book or searched for help … because we were too busy being the best adults we could be?

WHAT IF?

What a mess we would have in the teen and adult years. The children would be removed from our care and we could be labeled abusers.

WHAT IF …  the church said that children cannot be in small groups: 

"Because … it would mean providing age-appropriate materials; we must allow them the freedom to be children; we do not want to be distracted by their presence; it costs us; we don’t know how to relate to them; we will do it when they get to the next stage; we are too busy being the best adults we can be"? Read Matthew 18 and you might just find Jesus calls it “abuse”!

Come on church – we can do this! We are here to help you. Send an email and we will be on our way “for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”