Continuing on the theme of ranting in favor of little-appreciated causes, here is one on which lots of well-meaning brethren disagree with me: age segregation in the church. It's destroying children and young people by giving parents incentives to abdicate as spiritual leaders. The statistics are in, and children raised in these paradigms are not sticking with the faith when they are out on their own. And yet we keep doing the same things (that already didn't work) over and over.
"The church is not the playground for our creative imaginations. Scripture calls us to be faithful to the means which God has appointed, having onfidence that God both ordained the means and controls the ends. In Leviticus 10:1-3, we are faced with the fact that God strikes men dead for offering profane fire 'which he had not commanded them.' God did not say, 'I told you not to do that.' He said in effect, 'I did not tell you to do that.' Consider how many things the church is doing today that God did not tell it to do. Does that bother us?"
Scott Brown, A Weed in the Church
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