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On Friday’s I occasionally do a segment called “The Council of Many” (borrowed from many sources) on the show. In asking others there is wisdom. Here are a couple of ideas for tonight’s show:
“About a month ago my husband and I were in church with our 4-year old son. Our son is a great boy with lots of personality. Everyone loves him. Sometimes we keep him with us during the service as opposed to taking him to the children’s program. We just feel that worshiping as a family is important to us. Anyway, during this particular service, our son was a little rambunctious and was a little chatty. However, he didn’t want to go to the children’s program that day, he wanted to be with his Dad and Mom. Long story short, about 15- minutes into the pastor’s message, the pastor stopped and asked us to take our child into the children’s program. Needless to say we were mortified. So we all just got up and left and haven’t been back since. We’re sill very angry with our pastor for doing this and would like your advice about what to do from here? Do we change churches or what?"
“Our church has decided to ‘shut down’ for the summer. Due to gas prices, and the busy schedule of ‘kids, families and summer vacations’, we have decided to pause all ministries and activities and encourage our members to meet with a small group and their own neighborhood. If your church decided to close in the summer, how would you react? Some feel that the community would see this as God taking holidays and that “ministry” should go on. After all, many people are dependant on the church. Others feel that taking a summer break would give a chance for volunteers to recharge and maybe get more involved with their neighbors. If you think this is such a good idea, why do very few churches actually close for “holidays”?
“Eric, what do we do? My husband and I just had a huge fight over which church we should be bringing our kids up in. He and his family are Catholic and think that if we don’t get our kids baptized in the Catholic church that they’re going to hell. My family grew up in a Baptist church and... well, to be honest, my parents think that Catholics are going to hell anyway. Both sets of parents have definite opinions on which church we should be raising our kids in. My husband sides with his family and I side with mine. This issue has caused some huge fights between us. What should we do, and where does it leave us as a marriage and a family?"
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