Product Description: A Conference to Promote Family-Friendly Churches
"Help. My church youth group is destroying my children!"
In August 2002, more than five hundred churchmen — including pastors, elders, and deacons — gathered in St. Louis for an historic conference dedicated to the reformation of the local church on a matter of pressing urgency: the relationship of the church to fatherhood and family. After more than a century of the devastating influence of feminism, government education, and mass marketing techniques on the philosophy of the local church, many parents are beginning to wonder whether church is still a safe place for their children.
In contrast, through movements like home education, key segments of the Evangelical church are experiencing a revival of interest in fatherhood and family. However, as fathers and mothers have begun to turn their hearts to home, many have turned to the local church only to find opposition. Sadly, some churches actually persecute families who want to worship as a family, or who express concern over church youth groups. The debt-burden carried by many local churches and the perceived need to subsidize the debt by bringing in new members — through ever-more-innovative, family-segregating programs — only makes the matter worse. Parents who object to such activities are deemed troublemakers.
Equally sad is the fact that many families have responded to the crisis in the local church by giving up. The tragic results is nomadic families who flit from church to church, or renegades who refuse to place themselves under the accountability of a local church. Here, too, the damage to the families is incalculable. God requires His people to be under biblical local churches with biblical preaching, biblical ordinances, and biblical discipline.
So how do we unite church and home? We need to start by reviving the doctrine of sola scriptura and returning to the biblical model for assembly life. Join R.C. Sproul, Jr., Doug Phillips, Phil Lancaster, John Thompson, and many others for an historic conference that seeks to examine this watershed issue. 12 hours on 10 compact discs in a sturdy binder.
What the Bible Says About: Youth Groups Finding or Starting a Local Assembly The Church Local vs. the Church Universal Family Ministry Men in Leadership Patriarchy and the Church Church Discipline House Assemblies Church Government Shepherding
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