New Focus, Old Idea

Our church is taking a new focus on an old idea. The old idea is as old as Moses. In fact Moses was the one who communicated the idea to the Israelites just before their move into the Promised Land.
“ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”

I’m slowly realizing that the church model I’ve known all my life may not be the tried and true method God had in mind when he established the church. The model of separating age groups on a Sunday into their respective ministries (children, students, young adults, singles, seniors, etc) is really pretty new in the scheme of things. It’s only been around for about 50 years.

God wasn’t silent on the method he had in mind for developing faith in future generations, and it didn’t center around a cutting edge youth ministry. It focused on Parents. Parents are the method God intended for spiritual development. I’m excited to continue explore how to bring our church back into equipping homes to be equippers. It’s a new perspective that is an old idea.