Cobblestone Family Ministry

The following is a transcript of the Family Ministry Podcast episode titled, "How Should Kids Behave in Big Church?" Hello and welcome to the Family Ministry podcast, where we equip you to disciple your kids God's way. On today's episode, we're exploring the topic of how kids should behave in big church. And of course by big church, I mean in the sanctuary with everyone together. I think this is a big and interesting topic, especially at Cobblestone, because every first Sunday of the month we worship together as one big family with the kids and everybody all together. So before I address the topic of how kids should behave in big church, I think it would be helpful to first address the question of why should kids be in big church? We've answered this before, but in case you haven't heard it, the reason is because we're a family. We are all one big family. Cobblestone's core value number five is that we will be a church that is focused on discipling...

Maranda: Hello, and welcome to the Family Ministry podcast, where we equip you to raise your kids God's way. Today we're going to be talking about family devotions. Now, I know I've mentioned family devotions in the past and it's just kind of been, "Well, when you're doing your family devotions, you should do this," or "You can explain this during your family devotions," but I haven't actually explained what family devotions are or how to do them. So that's what we're going to do here today.  So first, what is it? What are family devotions? Well, family devotions are a parent led Bible and prayer time for the whole family together. Individual devotions are still encouraged. Each of your kids above a certain age should be doing their own individual Bible and prayer times, but we should also come together and do that as a family. So that's what we're going to talk about.  Now, if you're already doing your family devotions, j...