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made to look foolish and being laughed

at in some of the skits and programs

that they were asked to participate in.

Mixing silliness, humorous skits, and/or

fantasy with the teaching of God’s

Word trivializes the things of God and

potentially makes the truths of God’s

Word ineffective in a child’s heart. In

the Preschool and Children’s Ministry

Guiding Principles at the church that

the late Adrian Rogers once pastored,

one of the principles states: “Be careful

mixing fantasy with reality, because

children need to know that everything at

church is true.”
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