Looking for conversation?

Did you find this conversation about emerging churches and children's ministry when you visited Subversive Influence? It's almost a year old now, but take a look! Conversation about kids in Emerging churches is a really hard conversation to find...or it used to be. Maybe it's like cream - finally rising to the surface?

I think that one reason that the conversation is so hard to find is this generation's desire to include children and not separate them, the desire to make them full-fledged members of multi-generational communities. Church leaders and members are asking different questions than the questions we're used to. It may be that parents want to take more responsibility for nurturing their children's faith so they don't care so much about the programs and activities that mainline/evangelical churches are looking for. Churches who want to focus more of their energy interacting with people on the "outside" with the hopes of loosing the label all together would also be less apt to plan activities to draw a crowd ... Spinning the milk to mix in the cream is good but there is some floating to the top. And there are times and places when you just need cream.

If you're looking for conversation there's conversation to be found...