Permission granted to freely copy and borrow from for non-commercial purposes. To print out all these articles, click on your Printer Icon. In many churches, God is a confusing liturgy, blocked by a sea of tweed and cotton, spoken through a foreign language. A quiet policy of exclusion has filtered into modern Protestant worship. Prayers and litanies are overly complex and read too fast.
Kids see the family meal on the table but are wisked away before it is served.
If you can see the connection and know what to do about it, do it. It may be unpastoral, but is certainly not unprecedented. Ok, I feel better now. I used to worry about what I was going to do for the Children's Sermon. This concern frequently left me playing to the pews as much as the steps.