Churches these days are mainly made up for entertainment. Think about it. Step into a modern day church and you see, “child care center”, “Sunday school”, ”youth ministry center”, and many others. But what is the real thing that lies behind those signs? “Put your kids in our day-care classes so your wife can go out and work”, “Dump your child off here because they can’t worship with you in the sanctuary”, “Here’s a good place where you can ship your teens off to go and hang with other non-believing teens”.
I may sound harsh, but that is how far our churches have fallen. If the kids aren’t entertained, then they won’t want to come to church. And if they don’t want to come to church, then they don’t get the traffic for their church.
We got a letter a few days ago inviting us to attend a church that is in our area. It was colorful, with big bold letters. It had a children and teen center! It had a women and men’s Bible study group! It even had its own charter school and daycare center!! But do you know the one thing it didn’t say anything about on there? God. A Christian church with out one word about God.
If we are going to get America back on its feet, then we need to start at the church. This nation was built on solid Christian views, and now that we have let the world come in, we have slipped so far. The church has become part of the world.
Please feel free to leave me any comments.
Wow. I totally agree, and that’s rare. ;-p
I know that this was posted a long time ago but I decided to comment on it now.
I completely agree. But I also believe that it is ok to have “sunday schools” for kids that probably won’t understand the message the pastor will teach, only it will be held AFTER worship. I also think that every once in a while a paretn/teen type hang out/meeting is just fine and wouldn’t hurt anything. But i think that what you said above is totally true. I like the way you think Savannah! 
~Daniel~