Children Serving, Labouring, Working, Witnessing, etc. for the Lord

There is absolutely nothing wrong with children serving the Lord. We visited shut ins, did mission trips, had them visiting people in the hospital and not in the hospital. Children are Christians and gifted too.

 

First of all, calling me ignorant is an ad hominem and a board violation.
Secondly, I didn't say children can't serve the Lord. I criticized very young children being sent out screaming and preaching at passersby.

And so you could misrepresent my comments and frame them to suit your self, away from the context of the other dialog.

Nice move. NOT.

 

Actually, I don't think anyone should yell and scream at passersby. I hate to be yelled and screamed at. I sure would not promote that.

 

Bro. Williams,

I saw the picture at your website of the children on the street holding signs. What are they supposed to be doing?

How is it children serving the Lord?

 

Your quote lacks the entirety of my comments through the other thread. Just so everyone sees the sickening photo you refer to, here it is:

The boys are particularly very young, and this only demonstrates taking children who are too young to think critically, and dressing them up like little evangelists and sending them out on the dangerous streets. Looks like the younger is about 3 and the boy with the bible, hollering at the passersby is maybe 5. These kids should be playing, not being used as tools by adults, no matter how well meaning. These kids probably cannot even read, much less comprehend, the book they are waving.

No wonder people think Christians are kooks. Some obviously are! Do they handle rattlesnakes as well?

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Using children as pawns is sickening. How many 3 year olds can grasp salvation? Come on! Should someone who hasn't had a salvation experience be preaching in the first place?

 

Exactly!! That picture is disturbing. Thanks for posting it MP

 

You nor MP knows anything about that photo. You don't know that the child is 3 years old, you don't even know that the children even go to Battlefield. Beyond that, there is nothing wrong with a Christian family preaching the gospel on the street and the youngest among them holding up a sign.

A mighty man has arrows for a purpose...

"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth." - Psalm 127:4​

A Christian man is responsible for training up children. Perhaps, if he is training his children to go soul winning when they are young, they will go soul winning when they are old...

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 22:6​

 

Hate is a strong word. I certainly would not hate your child. He/She is innocent, trying to please a parent.

Bingo!

 

Are the children saved? Have they made a profession of faith?
If not... they are wrong...

How effective is it to have young children on the streets...
Sounds as if you are sending out the children to do the adult's job.

My child would not be standing there...
Nor would they attend your church.

Children need to be children... not pawns in the hands of over zealous Christians.
Christ said to let the little children come to him... not go scream at sinners...

You are misusing a gift that God has given you.. children.
Appreciate them.. don't use them!

 

Well said Tim.:thumbs: :godisgood: