Being Lutheran Podcast Episode #142 – Vocation in the Church, Part 2

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1. I so agree with Pastor Gudim regarding fragmenting the church and sending various ages to separate meeting areas. I do think it is a good idea to have youth begin attending the Adult Sunday School. Personally I would say when they begin Confirmation classes they are mature enough to handle adult Sunday School. Besides being a great asset to the rest of the body by their youthful ideas and questions, I beleive it is much easier for youth to continue with the relationships they will have built in Sunday School after the confirmation. In fact they may think twice before they make ungodly decisions out in the world during the week, if they know that “Mr. Jones” is going to ask them about their week or what they are struggling with just now. I know my sister thought many times about if she should join the “cool crowd” in drinking, because she did not want to hurt her aunt. It caused her grief just to think of how disappointed her aunt would be. Similarily a youth in the church will build those types of relationships when they attend adult Sunday School week by week. They will not want to disappoint “Mr. Jones” by making ungodly decisions. Of course “Mr. Jones” represents the body of Christ. Do they want to disappoint Jesus? I also think that young children need to be in church to learn how to listen well. I know there is an age between 0-3 years where they may need to be taken in and out while they are learning so as not to disturb those around them. However, even if all they seem to hear is a repetition of the Lord’s Prayer, at least they are hearing it once a week besides what they hear at home and that will be more easily learned when it is needed. Amen to Pastor Gudim and this soap box. We are trying to weld the body together by submitting to one another and “bearing with the scruples of the weak”. Surely we can love that much!!

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