Another Friday Favorite: A Plug for Children in Worship

I have been lap training my 7 mo. old during our family bible study. Since I’m the one reading the Bible, I have my oldest hold the baby in her lap. I said: you can turn her around or stand her in your lap, but you can’t stand up with her. The point being, that family worship time is much shorter than church worship, so she ought to be able to sit at least that long. We read a Psalm and Proverb of the day, and the section that the pastor has been preaching on, review our memory verse, and pray together.
Last Sunday, baby Julia was able to sit in my lap quietly for almost an hour! The training paid off. I was so impressed with her!

I love the idea of children in worship. In the church I grew up we had children stay until the sermon and offeratory and then go for Sunday School. The age was 5 upwards. The adults and teens who taught Sunday school took turns staying for communion.
Do not know if this is an appropriate topic to say this, but, on the topic of communion, it was strange to see the sacrament being passed around instead of having an ordained priest give it in the altar as I am used to and I had to work through my discomfort level. But I once did not participate in it when I saw teens handing out bread to people who were lined up because in my culture only priests who are ordained hand out communion. While I am very much in favor of children in church and worship, Sunday School, worship music, Youth groups, charity etc I personally would draw the line at handing out communion.

I love this! The dad cracked me up; seems like he’s been through this before 🙂

So cute!! I think Daddy was a bit tired 😀