What’s your church cooking with?


I’m preaching this Sunday morning.

The theme is the church’s role in nurturing faith at home.

I’ll be talking about next generation faith. The church can stunt the faith of the emerging generation if young people are not encouraged to leave “home” one day.

Jesus did it to the disciples when he sent out the 72.
Paul and Barnabas did it when they left on their first missionary journey.

What would happen if a church adopted the value of empty nesting?

We’d probably see a lot more faith being fostered in homes. We’d probably also see a lot more people walking the talk.

Of course, it means we’d have to stop cooking with cheese.

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