A local church in my area calls me for a reference for a friend who wants to work in the children's ministry there. So, I get the questions one would expect:
"Do you know this person to be patient?"
"Have you ever seen this person interacting with kids?"
"Has this person ever been convicted of a crime against children?" etc., etc.
Do you see what is wrong with this? I see an organization that runs like a business corporation; taking applications, running interviews and collecting references to run their mechanical programs. Needless to say that this is so far from the church as a family, which ironically is in their name.
My questions back to them would be:
"Why would you have someone work with your children that you don't know intimately?"
"You supposedly preach God's kingdom, but operate like the world. Why?"
May the eyes of our hearts continue to be enlightened to how truly opposite the Kingdom of God is and how destructive the ways of this world are.
"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ." -Colossians 2:8
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