This five part series expands on my answer to the question from Children’s Ministry Think Tank #5 on the Ministry-to-Children.com website. In my response to the question:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do you teach them about their own depravity? How do parents in your ministry respond to these issues?”
I noted five areas I believe children must be taught about sin in order to fully understand the concept. Those were:
What is sin?
Where does it come from?
Who sins?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is the
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (#5 What Is The Solution For Sin?)
This five part series expands on my answer to the question from Children’s Ministry Think Tank #5 on the Ministry-to-Children.com website. In my response to the question:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do you teach them about their own depravity? How do parents in your ministry respond to these issues?”
I noted five areas I believe children must be taught about sin in order to fully understand the concept. Those were:
What is sin?
Where does it come from?
Who sins?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is the
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (#4 What Are the Consquences of Sin?)
This five part series expands on my answer to the question from Children’s Ministry Think Tank #5 on the Ministry-to-Children.com website. In my response to the question:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do you teach them about their own depravity? How do parents in your ministry respond to these issues?”
I noted five areas I believe children must be taught about sin in order to fully understand the concept. Those were:
What is sin?
Where does it come from?
Who sins?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is the
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (#3 Who sins?)
This five part series expands on my answer to the question from Children’s Ministry Think Tank #5 on the Ministry-to-Children.com website. In my response to the question:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do you teach them about their own depravity? How do parents in your ministry respond to these issues?”
I noted five areas I believe children must be taught about sin in order to fully understand the concept. Those were:
What is sin?
Where does it come from?
Who sins?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is the
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (#2 Where Does Sin Come From?)
This five part series expands on my answer to the question from Children’s Ministry Think Tank #5 on the Ministry-to-Children.com website. In my response to the question:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do you teach them about their own depravity? How do parents in your ministry respond to these issues?”
I noted five areas I believe children must be taught about sin in order to fully understand the concept. Those were:
What is sin?
Where does it come from?
Who sins?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (#1 What Is Sin?)
I was honored this month to be asked to write for the fifth installment of the Children’s Ministry Think Tank over at Ministry-to-Children.com. It is one of my favorite recurring features out there in the Children’s Ministry blogging world. I like it so much that I wrote an article about it several months ago called, appropriately enough, Children’s Ministry Think Tank. Each installment has also been featured in The Children’s Ministry Blog Patrol.
The topic for this month is:
“How do you teach the doctrine of sin to children without harming their self-esteem? Especially with preschool children, how explicitly do
Continue reading 5 Things Kids Must Know About Sin (Children’s Ministry Think Tank)
This past week our church family suffered a tragic loss. The 21 year old son of two long-time church members, a kid who had grown up in our church, went missing while hiking in Colorado. I do not know the family personally, but our pastor posted a facebook status update last Wednesday night asking for prayers and suggesting that we “pray like it was your son!” That hit home with me. As the father of four kids, I started to think what it must be like for that family. Needless to say, they were in my prayers frequently over the
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