impressionable kids and their parents

sooo most of my posts are out of frustration. i probably have blogged on this before but there is a lot that is new so check it out!

The kids at our church have the BIGGEST HEART FOR JESUS!!! Why is there trepidation with their faith in church?? It's like its the cool thing to be at youth and true worship can not be done. Is it because they dont know how? Or maybe they dont know why? Or are they embarrased? Im thinking maybe they dont know what it really means to worship. why do you lift your hands? why do you drop to your knees? is it to show others that you love Jesus?? no! its for you and God. Maybe those kids dont know what worship is. or maybe they dont know how to worship with others around. Alot of these kids live with people that dont believe their is a God or that Jesus is not our savior. And it can be hard as children to try to defend or to show your feelings about something especially if your parents do not believe the same.

another thing about parents and their kids is, dont you want to know who they are hanging out with?? Dont you want to know what they are learning? and im not just talking about what they are learning at church. what about at school. the devil uses good sounding words to decieve us. and thankfully a lot of kids are coming to us at youth and asking about them. i like seeing parents wanting to talk to me though. coming to youth once or twice just to see whats going on. what is Moses teaching? what are they being taught in the small groups? do you talk to your kids about what they learned?

I believe kids during the junior high/ highschool years are the most impressionable. this is the time where they develop main ideas. where they start to find out who they are. I tell the kids every week to question what they are taught. by Moses and by me. by anyone. they are sooo ready to take in and believe whatever. now is the time to teach them to read the Word. People can be wrong. the bible is right. even people of the church can be wrong (haha, believe it or not!!).

Change is in order. and change will come.