The key question here is, “How are you, as a leader of children, going to follow the words of Jesus?” Is it possible to “let” the children come without engaging in forms of coercion? I believe it is. I come full circle back to the original quote that inspired my study of the approach to [...]
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“Often a child responds to a gospel appeal out of a deep desire to gain approval. It is part of the identity struggle within each of us to desire the approval of a parent or teacher. Winning the child according to this set of psychological principles, may be little more than instilling into the child [...]
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Daniel Smith writes, “Perhaps one reason so many children go into a period of spiritual stagnation in their teens is that they were frightened into “jumping on a fire escape” rather than being warmly attracted to the Person of Christ. Although the danger of a lost eternity is a part of the gospel, it is [...]
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Although the “age of accountability” is not so much an ethical question as a theological one, I felt that this work could not proceed without some thought given to this subject and our ethical response.
The Bible does not use the term “age of accountability,” nor does it imply that there is one mystical age [...]
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The idea for this paper began to germinate about six years ago. I was sitting in a recliner on the deck of the Disney Magic cruise ship in the harbor at Saint Thomas. I sat there, with the umbrella shading me from the tropical Bahamian sun, reading Sam Doherty’s book How to Evangelize Children. I [...]
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