Training young children to participate in worship is a challenge. Most of the church no longer makes the attempt. I understand the reasons. Toddlers especially seem to be a different category of person! Parents are wearied by their constant movement and leave frustrated, having heard little, and feeling like they have been to a wrestling match rather than to a worship service.
It is one of the idols of our age that life should be easy. If something is hard, there must be some way to make it easy, a machine, a pill, a new rule. All breathe narcissism’s deadly air. All my expenses paid; all my dreams realized; none of my decisions judged. Cross me, and I will drop a social media bomb on you. You and your opinions should be erased. Agitated by covetousness and sensuality, this idol becomes a deadly colossus, the moral equivalent of a nuclear bomb upon society. The fallout will suffocate the sunlight of personal liberty, sanity, and peace.
