Children are the church
We miss a lot when we don't invite children's presence and participation in worship.
One of my best memories from early in my ministry is of the Sunday when two little girls decided they wanted to sit in the front row without their parents. They weren't sisters, they were friends. Both sets of parents were in the building, sitting discreetly just a few rows behind them. The opening hymn was from a supplemental hymnal. If I recall correctly, it was a rousing contemporary song called "We Are the Church."
We all stood up, including these two young girls, and we all opened our supplemental hymnal. And they held their hymnals high, singing at the top of their lungs: "I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together."
Yes, we were.
