Why We Stopped Telling Our Kids We Are Going to Church and Started Telling Them We Are Going to Worship

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We stopped telling our kids we are going to church.

We stopped telling our kids we are going to church.

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It may seem strange but it’s easy to let church become a place you go and forget that you can’t really go to who you are. We…born again believers… are the church. Church is not somewhere we go, it’s who we are.

We go to worship because we are the church (Ecclesia or Ekklesia – “The called out ones”).

We want our children to understand that. We want them to grasp the great calling that is ours when we become His. We long for our children to embrace their identity as the church and all that comes with being who they are when they become Christians… and become young people who will worship God in spirit and in truth. 

After all, those are the kind of people God seeks after.

May our children grasp the essence of sincere worship of the Living God… may they see it modeled in us and not just a concept they’ve heard someone talk about. May they discover what worship looks like because they see us sincerely worshipping Christ not only corporately but individually as well.

We want them to have a biblically accurate view of who they are, what God calls them to, the benefits and the responsibilities that are theirs, and the privilege that belongs to God’s children when we surrender our lives to Christ and become the church.

“22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:22-23

SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD WE STOP TELLING OUR CHILDREN WE ARE GOING TO CHURCH AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WE ARE GOING TO WORSHIP? We’d love to hear from you!

Stephanie Shott
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