My family loves to eat out. Burger joints, Thai food, sushi, pizza, whatever. Fine dining or fast food. If you can name it, we’ve likely eaten it. And in our extensive amount of gastronomic experiences, one thing has been true of every restaurant: they all had a kids menu.
I mean, even fast-food restaurants, whose entire menu is essentially a gigantic kids menu, have a special section just for kids. McDonald’s Happy Meals anyone? Restaurants understand that if they can’t feed kids, then they won’t appeal to families and those families will find another restaurant.
I bring this up because when most parents come to a new church, they ask the pastor the same question they ask the restaurant hostess. What’s on your kids menu? They want to know if you have spiritual food for their children. Thankfully, most churches do have a kids menu. On it are things like children’s ministry classes, Vacation Bible School, youth group, and Awana. But one menu item is often absent: the sermon.
Yes, I realize that basically, all churches have a sermon. My concern is that many (most?) sermons don’t have anything for the kids. In that sense, the sermon isn’t just a menu
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