Week in and week out, the same group of unconverted people come to our worship services—and we practically ignore them. We’d never treat first-time visitors like this, and if we ever heard that they felt ignored, we’d certainly respond quickly to go out of our way to make them feel at home.
But this group? We basically ignore them. If you haven’t realized already, I’m talking about the children in our gatherings. Even in thoughtful, biblically sound churches, you can hear months of sermons without a word spoken to them.
Preacher, don’t assume children can’t or won’t listen. Many things will escape them, but they understand more than we give them credit for. Surely, anyone who has raised children has learned this. But for some reason, in church, we’re training them to think they don’t need to listen—that what the adults are doing is simply not for them. I know we don’t mean to do this, but when, week after week after we never directly speak to them, I can’t say I blame them.
Preacher, you should speak to the children in your sermons. It’s a fun and endearing task. I’m not always successful, but I try in every sermon
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