In 2001, Rickard started a new job. He began to work with a friend who asked 3 questions in regards to our life in the church. those questions threw our life into a tail spin.. We began to question the church and what we were really suppose to be doing. That started us on this road we are now walking. When it became painfully clear we needed to make a change, I was reluctent. For lots of reasons, I hesitated. There were alot of events that led to the final Exodus, but the final one was something that happened in the kids ministry. Up until that point, I just couldn’t be convinced that we couldn’t be a voice to bring change. But, the day we found out that someone in the children’s ministry was teaching really bizzar things, I new we had to go. It became painfully clear that we had left our kids for someone to teach about God. Big sigh. We now are teaching our kids to be the church in every day life. I remember years ago a friend making the statement that the western culture is one of a few cultures that send our children to “child care” for church. I was intrusting my precious babies to someone else, hoping they would teach the same things that we believed.. OUCH! I love the way we have chosen to do church. Our kids are part of all that we do. The good, the bad and the ugly. It isn’t always easy, but we have seen our kids grow to be very spiritual little beings. Our kids used to cry on the way to church, begging us to please stay home. Now they cry if we don’t go. They have taken ownership of this . They are on this journey along side us, not being dragged along.
For the sake of the children
October 23, 2007 by thevikingfru
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"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage. Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill”.- How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land...?
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Oh the memories, my favorite is still when you trew fast food bags on the table during a leadership training meeting, I think while yelling “this is bullshit” or something like that. You simply couldn’t take it anymore, always putting our kids with the babysitter, always being busy, to busy for time. I love you for that, girl.
Man I’m tired this morning, You threw fast food bags and we were to busy for family time, sorry babe
I, too, am deeply skeptical of the child-care/entertainment models of church for kids. At the moment our kids are enjoying it, and I haven’t convinced my husband to look at other approaches. It is odd that as followers of Jesus (yeah, the one who said let the children come to me) we have so little tolerance for kids being kids in church. Or we’ve made church itself something so inaccessible to kids that we have to get them out of the room while we worship.
I love the leadership meeting comment! Unfortunately, that model of church doesn’t allow for much middle ground. I found when I backed away from all the expected activities for the sake of family, I felt like a stranger in church. Our relationships were all built around those activities, and if you’re not there, you don’t stay connected.
Maria, Thanks for comin’and checkin’ out my blog. My husband was ready for a change much sooner than I.
At the leadership meeting, what Rickard failed to mention was that I had worked all day, at a daycare, and my kids were there, in daycare, all day, and I left work, ran through a fast food place, got dinner, rushed to church for a meeting we were required to be at, took my kids to daycare with there dinner and was told they couldn’t eat in there because it wasn’t fair to the other kids. That’s what made me lose it. This was a 6 week meeting and I refused to go after that;-)
Iam interested to read your blog, I’ll stop by soon.