Sometimes he likes to listen to the preacher, sometimes he does not. So run the objections. Yet usually these are not the child's objections, but the objections of some adult. From his experiences in church the child gets a sense of something big, something worthwhile, a feeling of Somebody so great, so powerful, so loving that people come together to think about Him and talk about Him and to speak with Him. God is important.
Grownups think so, too.
The child absorbs easily certain attitudes and concepts both from the things he hears and from the things he feels as he sits with his father and mother in the church service. Even though he may not understand the words of the hymns, for instance, he gets a very real sense of well-being from the music and from the worship of those who meet together. Sitting by mother and father in church where people speak often of God, the child comes to associate them with the thought of God and to feel that they have a relationship with God. I want to know Him, too. From the hymns of the church the little child catches a feeling.