The teaching and preaching of Jesus might be the best model for us as we reopen our buildings following COVID-19’s forced closure.
Some of us will be preaching to a smaller audience made up of younger worshippers.
The children who may have previously been engaged in a children’s ministry may be sitting in socially distanced worship services with their parents.
Here are five ways I’m tweaking my preaching for the next season of my ministry. Read More
Age segregation is a relative new phenomena in the Christian Church. Until the twentieth century children worshiped with their parents or guardians. They "caught" the Christian faith from their parents or guardians and the other members of the congregation. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to recover this ancient practice. In the 1970s it was found that children who worshiped with adults from an early age generally were well-behaved in church services and were less likely to leave their church when they became adolescents or young adults. This lesson was lost on evangelical churches.
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