Kids Don’t Get Anything Out of Church
Article by The Rev. Barbara White
Worship works in an economy that is not subject to first-person experience, but to the mysteries of unmerited grace. It shapes our hearts from both the inside out and the outside in. What we receive in worship is not a feeling or experience, but a person: the person of the risen Christ, under all the mysterious forms and in all the mysterious ways that he is manifest to his people. Each soul in the pews, regardless of age, is a child incapable of fully grasping what is going on around us. Each of us is being told a story that we cannot understand, and that nevertheless shapes us: week after week, Sunday after Sunday, year after year.
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