Elizabeth, your content is the best! Thank you so much for it! I praise God and give thanks to Him every time I watch your content. I share your videos often with other Christian parents. Thank you
Let me say I have not watched the video yet but I will. But I can tell you that I pulled my child out of church youth services 25 years ago because the seminaries were teaching the youth pastors such nonsense and they were passing that along. I voiced my concerns to the senior pastor and he actually told me "well that's what they're (youth pastor) taught". That's when the churches were also going into the Seeker friendly nonsense and this particular church had a split and ended up completely changing denominations. But my daughter does have a firm biblical foundation today in her forties and she and my granddaughters attend church and solid home bible studies. We cannot leave it to the church to raise our children biblically...that is a parent's job.
This is a perfect example of how your materials are so effective. Rather than focus on a particular situation (AWANA) you step back to provide a framework for thinking through the problem set, before walking the audience through the process. You could have provided a short clip with 'the answer,' instead, you've empowered the audience answer their own questions, in a myriad of similar circumstances. That's powerful and beyond what many in your position would do. You definitely have the heart of an educator and it shows in everything you do.
My kindergartener made the decision to stop participating in Awana. She wanted to learn about God’s Word with other children not be forced to recite Scripture (without understanding), recruit other kids to come, and gather gems/badges. We went to parents night and it was pretty chaotic. Not behavior wise but just structure. We supported our child when they wanted to attend but I think our child made a wise decision to step away. Our child likes one on one and small group biblical learning.
I decided to stop Awanas after attending one year. I was a leader for the cubbies while my son was in T&T. I witnessed too many times a lack of discipline; allowing the children to be disrespectful towards one another and towards the authority that was placed over them. I saw a lot of chaos and focus on gaining Awana bucks over truly discipling in the ways of the Lord. Perhaps other churches are better at those things, but my child was being influenced in ways that were concerning to me. I didn’t really see a difference from how the world operates.
Elizabeth, your content is the best! Thank you so much for it! I praise God and give thanks to Him every time I watch your content. I share your videos often with other Christian parents. Thank you
This was very helpful an episode for adults too. Keep up the good work ❤
Let me say I have not watched the video yet but I will. But I can tell you that I pulled my child out of church youth services 25 years ago because the seminaries were teaching the youth pastors such nonsense and they were passing that along. I voiced my concerns to the senior pastor and he actually told me "well that's what they're (youth pastor) taught".
That's when the churches were also going into the Seeker friendly nonsense and this particular church had a split and ended up completely changing denominations. But my daughter does have a firm biblical foundation today in her forties and she and my granddaughters attend church and solid home bible studies. We cannot leave it to the church to raise our children biblically...that is a parent's job.
This is a perfect example of how your materials are so effective. Rather than focus on a particular situation (AWANA) you step back to provide a framework for thinking through the problem set, before walking the audience through the process. You could have provided a short clip with 'the answer,' instead, you've empowered the audience answer their own questions, in a myriad of similar circumstances. That's powerful and beyond what many in your position would do. You definitely have the heart of an educator and it shows in everything you do.
Thank you for the encouragement!
My kindergartener made the decision to stop participating in Awana. She wanted to learn about God’s Word with other children not be forced to recite Scripture (without understanding), recruit other kids to come, and gather gems/badges. We went to parents night and it was pretty chaotic. Not behavior wise but just structure. We supported our child when they wanted to attend but I think our child made a wise decision to step away. Our child likes one on one and small group biblical learning.
I decided to stop Awanas after attending one year. I was a leader for the cubbies while my son was in T&T. I witnessed too many times a lack of discipline; allowing the children to be disrespectful towards one another and towards the authority that was placed over them. I saw a lot of chaos and focus on gaining Awana bucks over truly discipling in the ways of the Lord. Perhaps other churches are better at those things, but my child was being influenced in ways that were concerning to me. I didn’t really see a difference from how the world operates.