CLPC kids has a new name: Children's Ministry Unpolished. Take a look at "Propaganda or promise?" (Monday, January 21, 2008)
Then think about this. What's the difference? How do you separate "the real thing" from empty propaganda? We are born into a very commercialized, hype, entertainment-oriented, feel-good, faster-than-a-microwave culture and it affects the church. What's Biblical and what isn't? What issues did Jesus address as Son of God on earth? What bothered Him? What things could have bent Him out of shape but didn't?
How did He spend His time and energy? What did He talk about? What is God sensitive about?
What does God promise? Are there conditions? Does He expect something from me? What if God doesn't deliver? Then what? Did Jesus talk about that?
Different generations have discovered pasteurizing milk, sterilization, fresh air and exercise, health foods, anti-bacterial dish soap as ways to grow healthy. Good stuff! Different generations have also faced their share of propaganda - advertising, government/war morale building, education, news broadcasts. It isn't all propaganda. But some of it is. Maybe most of it is.
How about growing healthy faith? How do we do that? How do you know whether or not the ideas we feed children will cause them to draw near to God and God to draw near to them or whether they will cause children to stumble and fall? Am I presenting and representing the Truth or am I presenting something else and misrepresenting Him? How do I know?
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