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20 Devastating Results of Ineffective Children's Ministry

7:47 AM  Dale Hudson  

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

5:34 AM  Dale Hudson  

  1. They share information.  They are growing up with the electronic cut and paste and forward.
  2. They are multi-ethnic.  By 2050, there will not be a majority ethnic group in the United States.
  3. GM means food that is Genetically Modified.
  4.  “Dude” has never had a negative tone.
  5. Having a chat seldom involves talking.
  6. Gaga has never been baby talk.
  7. Their rites of passage have more to do with having their own cell phone and Twitter accounts than with getting a driver’s license and car.
  8. A tablet is not something you take in the morning.
  9. Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.
  10. With GPS, they don't needed directions to get someplace, just an address.
  11. Their favorite feature films have always been largely, if not totally, computer generated.
  12. A Wiki has always been a cooperative web application rather than a shuttle bus in Hawaii.
  13. They have always been able to plug into USB ports.
  14. They absorb teaching methods that involve small-group collaborative learning rather than a passive listen-and-take-notes lecture.
  15. On average, at age 4, they will ask about 437 questions a day.
  16. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
  17. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
  18. They've always had hundreds of cable channels to choose from.
  19. Video games have always had ratings.
  20. History has always had it's own channel.
Your turn.  What are some other interesting things about today's kids?  Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
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