What do I do when my kid thinks church is boring?
A podcast conversation with The Center For Faith and Children
This week, The Center for Faith and Children dropped their latest episode of their excellent ‘The Child In Our Midst’ podcast, where I got to collaborate with Lindsey Goetz and Ahyuwani Akanet in a conversation about kids being bored in church.
This is a pain point for all of those who are either parents, leaders, or invested adults in the church. We long for our children to love Jesus and love his church. We know the value of the church for ourselves and the importance of the church for the ongoing formation of faith. The church as God’s gathered people is (as Calvin writes) the “bosom [in which] God is pleased to gather his sons, not only that they may be nourished by her help and ministry as long as they are infants and children, but also that they may be guided by her motherly care until they mature and at last reach the goal of faith”.1
So, we are rightly concerned when the children in our midst express that they are bored at church. There is the fea…
