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children are being taught “behind closed

doors.” If I had it to do over again, I would

want to bring up our children in a family-

integrated church where the parents are

encouraged to assume their God-given

responsibility — and privilege — to

spiritually train up their children in the

way they should go (Prov. 22:6).

And then at the most critical time in a

young person’s spiritual life, the church

turns the youth over to a “youth pastor”

who is hired by the church to — for the

most part — provide fun activities for the

youth and to teach them that it’s not “cool”

to be too serious about living for Christ and

that they can say that they’re Christians but

continue to live and look like the world.

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