According to a new five-week, three-question national survey sponsored by the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC), the youth group itself is the problem. Fifty-five percent of American Christians are concerned with modern youth ministry because its too shallow and too entertainment-focused, resulting in an inability to train mature believers. But even if church youth groups had the gravitas of Dallas Theological Seminary, 36 percent of todays believers are convinced youth groups themselves are not even biblical. Its time for the Christian father to take the central role which God has ordained, McManus concludes. Gathered around the dining room table, the father needs to lead family worship once again, which had been standard behavior for a vibrant American Christian family for hundreds of years, dating back to the Plymouth, Mass., colony of 1620. Dad needs to read from and discuss the Bible, sing Christian songs and pray with his family, his little flock over which God has appointed him shepherd. Frankly, Im not as concerned about what happens in Sunday school in church as I am with what happens in Monday school and Tuesday school at home with the family.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:39:48 +0000