Your family and church services

We have teens at our church who sit with their parents and some who sit on the second pew with their peers. It's my opinion that if they are participating in congregational singing and listening to the sermon (as much as the adults are :flower, then I have no problem where they sit.

I don't like it when teens sit in the back, away from their parent's observations, and slouch down in the pew as if they can't wait to get out of there. THOSE teens should be with their parents.

Truthfully, it's not where there backside is seated, it's where there heart is. And as long as they are under the watchful eye of the parent and the parent isn't afraid to get up and tend to an unruly teen, then I don't have an opinion one way or another.

Which reminds me, we had a 14-year-old boy once who misbehaved in church while his mother sang in the choir and sat in the choir during the service. He sat on the second row. His father, at that time was not saved and did not come to church. One day, his mother had threatened to swoop down out of the choir and pull him by the ear and take him outside and tear up his backside.

He didn't believe her.

He should have. Because she did! :laugh::laugh:

His father is now saved and a wonderful member of our church. His blessed mother is now deceased and he is a good husband and father, himself.

 

Our children have always sat with us unless they needed to sit elsewhere for a ministry reason (like when my daughter is involved in worship at the home church, we usually sit in the left but she is on the right side of the stage so instead of walking across the front of the church, she will sit over on the right). Our teens were never allowed to sit with their peers but their peers were welcome to sit with us if their parents were not in the sanctuary. Dating couples are not allowed to sit with each other but instead must sit with their respective parents. Church is not a "date" but instead a time to grow in the Lord. It's not necessary to sit together to do this.