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How to Ensure Every Child's Unique Discipleship Pathway

As we prepare today’s kids to lead the church of 2050, what if we designed a new system that put each child on his or her own unique discipleship pathway?

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How to Match Your System to Your Philosophy

Are we talking about the systems of the past? Systems of the present? Or the systems we need to build the disciples who will lead the church of 2050? 

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How to Develop a "Kid-Focused" Philosophy

Are we programming for the immediate, or prioritizing for the future?

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Why Children Need the Church

This is why, though parents are important, even primary, in the spiritual direction and discipleship of their children, they are not “only” or even enough. Children may grow in the soil of their parents’ faith, but they need light and air and more.

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Dear Disciple Maker

You are more important than you know. These children are growing up and soon will forget your name. But when they think of God’s love . . . to them it looks a lot like you. 

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A Shifting Landscape: The Challenges That Lead to the Need for a New Approach to Child Discipleship

Today’s church kids are growing up in both a secular and church culture which is unlike the cultures in which most adults grew up. More importantly, the culture kids are experiencing is unlike the ones that are to come.

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Why do we have a children's ministry?

The question, “Did you have fun?” is not a terrible question. It’s just not the most important or the final question.

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Could You Be the Most Important Factor in the Life of the Kids You Know?

The #1 outcome in predicting whether a child is going to do well is not education, it’s not money, and it’s not home. It’s whether or not they have an adult to put their arm around their shoulders and say, “I’ll walk this walk with you.”

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A Letter to Today's Child

Dear child, You are little for such a short time. But, when you grow up and think back on your childhood, we hope some of your earliest memories are about us, the church.

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5 Goals for Resilient Child Discipleship in Your Church and Mine

You and I have a vision for what we want the church to be, but is it possible to predict […]