A Weed in the Church: How a culture of age segregation is harming the next generation, fragmenting the family, and dividing the church. While almost everyone involved in youth ministry agrees there is a crisis, not everyone agrees on its severity nor has the same diagnosis. A Weed in the Church suggests that this well-recognized crisis has a specific cause, which will surprise many. Brown argues that while Scripture defines and wholeheartedly encourages youth discipleship, the premises of modern youth ministry ...
A Weed in the Church: How a culture of age segregation is harming the next generation, fragmenting the family, and dividing the church. While almost everyone involved in youth ministry agrees there is a crisis, not everyone agrees on its severity nor has the same diagnosis. A Weed in the Church suggests that this well-recognized crisis has a specific cause, which will surprise many. Brown argues that while Scripture defines and wholeheartedly encourages youth discipleship, the premises of modern youth ministry are at odds with biblical teaching and must be reformed. A Weed in the Church unfolds the history, the nature, the effect, and the root problem of systematic, age-segregated youth ministry and presents helpful solutions built on Scripture's sure foundation.
“Scott Brown offers a thoughtful and gracious challenge to the prevailing model of systematic age-segregation in church. The author’s heart beats with passion for the authority and sufficiency of the Bible. He issues a clarion call for fathers to take responsibility for raising their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. He also traces the historic roots of the modern philosophy which would isolate children from the formative influence of godly fathers.
Dr. Paige Patterson
“As I have watched what has happened in most of our churches, I have become convinced that Scott Brown is far more right than wrong on this matter. I, for one, am extraordinarily grateful that he has gone to the trouble to write this book and articulate the position. May God grant that many will listen to it before our families are totally lost and with them the churches also. Our families simply must have some time when they worship and study together.”
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
“The tragic fruit of families torn apart by their churches—which should be holding them together—surrounds us on every side. The experiment of age segregation in the churches has run its course, and the findings are clear. It’s time to pull the plug and go back to the old paths, the path God prescribed to Abraham, that fathers are to command our children to keep the ways of Jahweh by doing righteousness and justice, so that He may bring us what He has promised us...
Kevin Swanson
“This book has far-reaching implications for Christianity, worldwide. Scott Brown explains how the traditions of men make the laws of God of none effect in the discipleship of our children. Is there any wonder why the faith has so little potency to effect the generations? May God bring repentance to the church in the west!”
RC Sproul, Jr.
“A Weed in the Church is honest, thoughtful and biblical. In the best Reformation tradition it considers our own traditions in the light of God’s Word. And then, directs us to obedience to the Word. I commend it highly.”
Scott T. Brown is the director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University with a degree in History, and received a M. Div. from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to pastoral ministry and conferences on biblical church life. He has been married Deborah have for twenty-seven years and they have four children.
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