God Said We Could, So We Did!
June 11, 2021 will mark the twenty year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that opened the doors to elementary schools in America for after school Good News Club meetings. A Good News Club can meet in public schools on the same terms as other community groups.
"The Good News Club gives the local church the way to carry the Gospel into the public school then involve the kids and their families in your church." - Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman, Liberty Counsel
When I'm invited to present the CEF ADOPT-A-SCHOOL program, I am often greeted with a list of children's programs and opportunities that a local church is already providing for children at the church.
I am always excited to hear the many ways that a local church is investing in the children in their community!
Children are our most precious resource! We must treasure them, protect them, teach them, engage them, and place them at the top of every list!
They are future leaders!
At some point early in my presentation, I will speak to the great need to mobilize and move beyond the four walls of the church house to carry the Good News of Jesus to the school house. In many cases the local elementary school is just down the street from the church, across the road, a few blocks away, just on the other side of the highway, or across town.
In Matthew 18:10-14 Jesus warns and encourages His disciples concerning children.
10“Beware that you don’t look down upon a single one of these little children. For I tell you that in heaven their angels have constant access to my Father. 11 And I, the Messiah, came to save the lost. 12 “If a man has a hundred sheep, and one wanders away and is lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others and go out into the hills to search for the lost one? 13 And if he finds it, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine others safe at home! 14 Just so, it is not my Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.
10b"....For I tell you that in heaven their angels have constant access to my Father."
What is the Savior telling us in verse 10b?
I will dare to be brave enough to offer a thought on what Christ may have been speaking to the body of believers and I believe is speaking to us today.
Children are VERY IMPORTANT to HIM! God has given special charge and access to the angels to ascend and descend from the Throne of Grace to bring the needs of children directly to Him.
I believe with all my heart that the next generation desperately needs for us to mobilize! I also believe with my whole heart that the prayers of children are very powerful and effective!
We must go and tell them about the Good News Jesus! We must go and teach them that His WORD is true! We must go and tell them that they can put their hope in Christ Jesus the Risen One!
They may NOT be coming to you! But, God has made a way for you to GO to them!
“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: “This is the message from the one who is holy and true. He has the key that belonged to David, and when he opens a door, no one can close it, and when he closes it, no one can open it.
Revelation 3:7.
