So, no, we're a family integrated church, so we, look, we do have, and we're going to
talk about that in a minute, we have mother baby room, we have a father baby room, we
have, you know, we have things for the kids to do afterwards as well, it's not that we
expect them to just be, you know, sitting in church like the adults from one year old,
however, we're training them to be part of the church service, okay, family integrated
church, they're integrated. Now, there are other reasons for that, we're going to talk
about that in a minute, but you're in Matthew 19. Matthew 19 and verse 13 says,
Then were they brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them and pray,
and the disciples rebuked them. So, the disciples here, I believe, are like those sort of overzealous
ushers and deacons in churches, if you've ever been into those sorts of places, where
they're literally trying to, they are sometimes trying to wrestle your child off you. Then
I've been to churches like that, where you walk in there, right, right, children are
going over there, you go, oh, wait a second, I've literally just come to your church, I've
never met any of you before, but you expect me to send my child off to some random room
somewhere and to be with people, I don't even know who, when they have like this rotation
of just, anyone, let's get a lady, we'll get a guy involved this time, we'll get, oh, they're
kind of, they seem alright, they can teach the kids at Sunday school. The kids are important,
aren't they? It's important what they're being taught, don't you want to know what they're
being taught? Yeah, how can you know what they're being taught if it's private to where
you are? Who's responsible for those children? Their parents, aren't they? Who's their spiritual
head, who's their spiritual leader, their father? They should know what their kids are
being taught, right, not wondering what on earth they're being taught, and look, a lot
of places, it's amazing what they are being taught in these places as well. So the disciples
rebuked them, but Jesus said, suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto
me for of such is the kingdom of heaven and he laid his hands on them and departed thence.
So we want our children to be where Jesus is in the midst, don't we? Yeah, look, yeah,
we're not all like falling down, you know, with the spirit hitting us and barking like
dogs and, no, but we believe that the Holy Spirit's in this room, don't we? Yeah, I believe
the Holy Spirit's here right now and I want the kids here and not like tucked out somewhere
else where the word of God's not being preached, where the Bible's not being read. No, we want
the children where Jesus Christ is as well. We don't want them getting taught who knows
what by who knows what, do we? And a lot of the time it gets to that where it's who knows
what is even teaching them, okay? And look, just on that as well, look, if you're that
sort and you're some sort of wicked person, what sort of ministry do you think you might
go into? Because what do these people always go into? And away from church life, what they
generally sort of jobs that these sort of predators go into, places with vulnerable,
just jobs with vulnerable people. We're talking about this recently. You name it from like
care jobs to school jobs to just where there's vulnerable people, you will see predators.
So we don't really want to send our kids off to a place where there's basically just all
these children and who knows who looking after them, okay? Should be clear, should be obvious,
shouldn't it? And again, there are many reasons that we want them in church as well, not just
for that reason. And okay, because look, dads and where they're absent mums, because look,
there's many different situations in our lives as it is, are responsible for knowing what
their children are being taught, like I said, that they're responsible, they're the spiritual
head, they should know what their children are being taught.
Hi there, brother Ian Tarrant here at Shaw Foundation Baptist Church UK. I'd like to
show you today how the Bible says that you could be 100% sure that if you died today,
you are going straight to heaven.