I've raised my two children in household church. They were 6 and 3 when we started and now they're 14 and 11 We have a chapter on children and young people in Total Church, but here's the two minute version. I think household church is a great context to raise children. There are challenges - the challenges of integrating them week by week. But better that by far than postponing those challenges until a crisis moment somewhere in their teens when they're expected to make a big jump to church. You do lose some peer opportunities (although you can address those by working as a network of household congregations). But you gain something more valuable - children and young people interacting with Christian community and, especially, having Christian role s who are older then them, but not as old as their parents. Lose you images of a youth club with 50 kids running around like mad things on a Friday evening and gain instead an image of teenagers hanging out with committed Christians in their twenties.
Tim Chester - Money and Children in Household Church.
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