5 Things You Must Know About Child Evangelism

Though I believe in, and have my own relationship with God, I do not go to church. There are reasons for this that I can’t possibly put in a tiny article. Those reasons come down to hypocrites and people who just plain go so far past the line they can’t see it any longer. This leads to problems with my daughter’s maternal grandparents. She is not my daughter by birth, but is with me because her mother died. Though I am legally her aunt she is my daughter in every other way.

These grandparents are very religious. There is nothing wrong with that in anyway, except they take it to the extreme. They take her to church twice a month, but I don’t know how I feel about child evangelism. Perhaps that is not the right term, but that is what I am going to use. As far as I am concerned, taking a child to church that young is something of a brainwashing, but it really does depend on the church.

What caused alarm for me was what my daughter said during her nighttime prayers the other day. She prayed that she would go to Heaven with my grandparents, but did not mention my husband or me. When I asked her if we would go to Heaven as well, she told me that we would not because we didn’t go to church. They planted this idea, and it was child evangelism at it’s worst as far as I was concerned. To teach her to love God and be good to everyone is one thing, but this was something else entirely. This form of child evangelism is what breeds hate.

I think there is a difference between teaching a child to love God and child evangelism. I think they are using scare tactics to keep her in line with what they believe and what they want her to believe. I think that she should attend church but ultimately make up her own mind about what she believes. I don’t think child evangelism is ever a good idea for any child because I think they should be more mature before presented with something so life altering.

Most churches are great, but there are a few that are nothing more than a cult, and I think they are trying to pull her in. I know, that sounds paranoid right? Perhaps if you could see, you would feel as I do. Nothing short of devout living and steady church attendance is good enough for these people, and they even threaten her. They tell her she is going to hell if she does not continue with church. I think it’s long past the time this stops. Child evangelism is good only when it’s good for the child.