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Originally Posted by Eliseus

Decades ago, a lot of "churches" segregated by race. The "coloured folks" as they called them had to sit in a separate section, usually a balcony or some such thing. My point was, folks are mor esegregated now in many churches than what was going on 50-100 years ago. Obviously, you completely missed that point.

it was a terrible point. Putting kids in Sunday school classes is not segregation comparable to racism. Additionally they are NOT not allowed to be with the adults. Most churches that have sunday schools worship together and in many cases in the morning they have an evangelistic service together (preaching) and in the evening they all are together to for the same service

Oh, and I have long ago accepted that 90% of the posters here consider me to be ranting every time I hit "submit post".

Maybe it's style and not substance or a little of both

"Real church" is the "big people's service".

Really? So only adults can have real church? Then what is the point in having the kids there if they can't be considered as having real church? Why can't they have real church anyways? And as I said, MOST churches have services where everyone is together

The pesky childen must be whisked outof sight and out of mind so as not to interfere with "real church" (ie, adult church), contrary to Jesus' explicit instructions.

Can you post that scripture that says all church meetings must be adults and kids together always otherwise it is not real church? If you and I had "church" just the two of us without the rest of your family being present, is it fake church?

You base everything you know on polls? I meet people all the time who quit going to church specifically because they feel the church divides their family, because they object to the family segregation, the pressure to turn their kids loose to the "youth program" and the "youth camp" and yada yada yada.

You were the one that says "more and more"...I expected you to have something concrete other than your personal experience. My personal experience does not match that.

I could care less what Billy Sunday did or did not do, and I could care less what "early Pentecostal believers" did or did not do. The Bible does not instruct the church to segregate families as is so common nowadays.

It was YOUR claim that it was a MODERN thing here to follow the worldly anti God trend. The truth of the matter is they have been separating during sunday school into classes for MANY MANY MANY years. Why are you ignoring that fact? That's convenient. You come off sounding like you are demanding we look at this objectively. Then why ignore my point?

Modern family segregation in the church is counterproductive, encourages a worldly paradigm regarding the family, and fails to counteract the destructive influences of the world that divide and destroy families.

That remains to be seen, but you tied initially the church doing that with the world "segregating" as a modern thing...I simply pointed out the churches has been doing it for a long long time.

The modern church PARADIGM is not designed to build strong, godly families for the Lord, in spite of advertising to the contrary.

That remains to be seen. Just asserting things does not help your case. Perhaps this is why your problem being heard is a little of both substance and style. How do you know it's the paradigm itself? When our govenment does something stupid is that because our system is broke, the people are broke or both? All you have given me is assertions