I’ve recently discovered a great book entitled It Starts at Home: A Practical Guide to Nurturing a Lifelong Faith by Kurt Bruner and Steve Stroope. It reinforces so many of the messages that God has been showing us at our Household Worship Service, and it is exciting to see that the larger Body of Christ is beginning to wrestle with the same issues. Here is an excerpt from the foreword, written by Bill Hybels, as he comments on his support for the thrust of this book:
The time has come to innovate once again. The landscape of the world in which we minister has shifted dramatically during the past three decades. The upcoming generation confronts an obstacle to belief that goes beyond worship style, teaching relevance, or church-program excellence, because it is not about what’s happening at church. It’s about what’s missing at home.
You’ve probably read the reports. Even the most conservative estimates tell us that we are losing more and more of our own children to unbelief. Many of those most inclined to embrace the gospel—children, like my grandson, who attend church with their parents—are rejecting the Christian faith. Despite an enormous investment of time and money into some of the most innovative and effective church programs in the history of Christianity, generational faith transference is in serious decline.
If the local church is the hope of the world, then we must take seriously the church’s responsibility to call couples, parents, and grandparents to create God-honoring homes. Only then will we see the tide turn on declining generational faith transference.
What (or Who?) is missing at your home? Let’s ask God to fill our homes with His Presence, so that the next generation will truly run after Him with all their might!
The time has come to innovate once again. The landscape of the world in which we minister has shifted dramatically during the past three decades. The upcoming generation confronts an obstacle to belief that goes beyond worship style, teaching relevance, or church-program excellence, because it is not about what’s happening at church. It’s about what’s missing at home.
You’ve probably read the reports. Even the most conservative estimates tell us that we are losing more and more of our own children to unbelief. Many of those most inclined to embrace the gospel—children, like my grandson, who attend church with their parents—are rejecting the Christian faith. Despite an enormous investment of time and money into some of the most innovative and effective church programs in the history of Christianity, generational faith transference is in serious decline.
If the local church is the hope of the world, then we must take seriously the church’s responsibility to call couples, parents, and grandparents to create God-honoring homes. Only then will we see the tide turn on declining generational faith transference.
What (or Who?) is missing at your home? Let’s ask God to fill our homes with His Presence, so that the next generation will truly run after Him with all their might!
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