To Teach a Generation How to Worship: A Case for Children in Corporate Worship - a podcast by Jonathan Michael Jones

Nearly every minister who is involved
in the worship leadership in any capacity has or will come across the issue of
what to do with children during gatherings. Various churches employ disparate
measures with their children including but not limited to having separate
children’s worship services, having special children’s messages during
corporate worship, or simply allowing them to worship with everyone else in the
fellowship. In my years of encountering this issue, my opinion has changed, for
where I used to support separating children from adults so as not to be a
distraction, I now firmly and fully support keeping kids in the worship space
with adults. My reason for this shift lies in this rhetorical question: how
will children learn to worship if not from older generations in their lives,
especially their parents. I openly admit that not everyone enjoys being around
kids or is even good with kids; there is nothing wrong with that so no one
should make such people feel as though they are wrong for their discomfort with
children. Nonetheless, everyone in the body of Christ is given the obligation
to model proper worship to a younger generation. I intend here then to make a
case for keeping children in corporate worship rather than separating them. In
doing so, I will provide four foundations for children in worship.

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