A Weed in the Church: How a culture of age segregation is harming the next generation, fragmenting the family, and dividing the church. While almost everyone involved in youth ministry agrees there is a crisis, not everyone agrees on its cure. A Weed in the Church suggests that this well-recognized crisis has a specific cause, which will surprise many.
Brown argues that while Scripture defines and wholeheartedly encourages youth discipleship, the premises of modern youth ministry are at odds with biblical teaching and must be reformed.
A Weed in the Church unfolds the history, the nature, the effect, and the root problem of systematic, age-segregated youth ministry and presents helpful solutions built on Scripture's sure foundation.
On the program today, my guest will be Scott Brown - director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. “Scott Brown offers a thoughtful and gracious challenge to the prevailing model of systematic age-segregation in church. The author's heart beats with passion for the authority and sufficiency of the Bible. He issues a clarion call for fathers to take responsibility for raising their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. He also traces the historic roots of the modern philosophy which would isolate children from the formative influence of godly fathers. At the same time, he honors the God-ordained role of the elders of the church in shepherding the flock of God. One does not have to embrace all of his conclusions to realize that his book can make a helpful contribution to the current debate on how to disciple our children.
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“ Helpful, but... ” This is a helpful discussion. Scott Brown is certainly on to something. Yes, my fear is this: have we forgotten that are Already Gone from the womb. Do we need to teach creation? Yes. Do we need to stress the centrality of the home and especially the father? Yes. But let us not forget the need for a solid conversion to God. Let us stress the marks of true and saving religion. Let us preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. For ultimately speaking, children leave the church because they are unconverted. This I fear is an overlooked fact.
