Cedric Fisher: "earnestly contending for the faith."

Christians or Churchians? It begins in the nursery.

First, there is children’s church where we teach them religious nursery rhymes. We present very shallow Bible stories with puppets and cartoons. Then we let them color or make a craft, give them a treat, and send them on their way. Through the week they will indulge in secular cartoons, attend a public school, and never once hear or see anything that remotely reminds them of Christ or God.

When they become teenagers, we send them to youth meetings. Again, the hear shallow snippets of God’s truth, and only what is altered to be relevant for adolescent issues. They play games, listen to music that mimics secular music, and watch videos that have little or no scriptural substance. Then we send them away to spend the week listening to secular music, watching sitcoms or dramas depicting life without God, and movies (Twilight saga) that glorify the demonic.

Then we expect them to grow up prepared and willing to take the reins of church leadership and perpetuate what they have never known or experienced. Is it any wonder that we are witnessing Christianity being transformed into a semi-adult version of exactly what they were taught? What did we expect? This mistake cannot be corrected. The generations of young people that were taught from nursery age an alternative Christianity based on a diluted Gospel seeded with fantasy are now in charge.

They should have been taught the truth and brought into the adult meetings when they were young. Parents ought to have continued the teaching at home by word and example. You reap what you sow. Christianity has sown the wind and they are reaping a whirlwind. The only hope for a victory, if one can be had, is wholesale repentance by the generation that is fading into retirement, and a total commitment to evangelizing those generations with the truth. Otherwise, we are watching the apostasy that we planted come to full age and fruition.

Let me say in clarity that I am not against children’s church or youth meetings, but against those events becoming ends in themselves. Children and young people ought to have been taught in such a way as to progressively understand the true Gospel. If they are old enough to understand a message from the world system, they are old enough to understand a message from God. I do not read in the Bible where God gave cucumbers and tomatoes as gifts to bring the church to maturity and the fullness of Christ. While those aids may be beneficial, the veracity of the Gospel cannot depend on them alone. Otherwise, pardon my feeble wit, we are raising generations to become chopped salad for the devil.

2 Comments

  1. KC

    Couldn’t be more true. Are you familiar with the training Mormon youth get as they grow up? Educated (steeped) in their doctrine they are prepared to go into the world and present their false gospel.
    I would like to know why our youth groups “watch movies and ski for Jesus” instead of learning their doctrine, memorizing scripture and getting out on the streets and presenting to the lost the only thing that will save them from hell.

  2. Diana

    As per the famous injunction in Deuteronomy, the parents are supposed to be training their kids up in what the N.T. calls the “nurture and admonition” of the LORD, and that more by EXAMPLE than by precept even. Once a week for an hour at church doesn’t cut it.

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