7:47 AM
Dale Hudson
- Families in the community remain broken and lost.
- Kids grow up and walk away from church.
- Dead religion replaces a life giving relationship.
- People become spiritually obese instead of conduits of God's love.
- The focus of the ministry turns inward.
- The baptistry is dry.
- Very few guests walk through the doors and when they do, they don't return.
- People spend their time at church arguing over petty things that have no bearing on eternity.
- Kids think church is a boring, irrelevant place.
- Scripture information is taught without life application.
- Kids know about Jesus, but don't know Jesus.
- The congregation grows more predominately grey each year.
- Volunteering becomes a duty to be endured instead of an opportunity to impact the next generation.
- Parents have to make their kids come to church with them.
- Kids see the Bible as a rule book instead of a love letter.
- Parents aren't equipped to be the primary spiritual leaders of their children.
- Programs and events that have run their course and are no longer fruitful are perpetuated.
- Children's ministry becomes known as childcare instead of one of the most important ministries in the church.
- The children's ministry becomes a silo and sees other ministries as "competition" for resources and volunteers.
- A busy, but unproductive calendar.
