Are Children of Believers Members of the Christian Church? On holiday we visited two great churches and were deeply encouraged by both. But they had very different views concerning children of believers. One church counted children of believers as being Christians themselves. They were part of the whole service and very little was changed for them, except for a kids talk. There was no Sunday school within the service (though there was one beforehand -- it wasn't obvious to us from the church sign whether we could just rock up). The other church had a separate building and events for the kids -- we parted ways even before any services started. From what we saw, the kids-side was essentially an evangelistic meeting with an invitation to "put your hand up if you want to make a decision" prayer at the end. In fact the adult end was a version of this as well. Theologically I think the first church had the theology right. There is a continuation between the old and new covenant in terms of inclusion of children of believers in salvation. Children of believers are rightly addressed and treated as saints throughout New Testament letters. But it kind of felt like neither church had the practice right. The second church was much more tailored at the kids level -- there was lots of energy and creativity well used. But my kids didn't need evangelising -- they needed to worship/praise God, be taught his Word and get fellowship with