Playing Church

When my girls were growing up, it was a common thing for them to "play church".  They had several cousins their age and when they got together they pretended to be the preacher, the worship leader and the piano player.  I remember a particular time when my daughter, Melinda, found some notes from a sermon my husband preached and she preached it to her 'congregation' just as she heard her dad preach it.  She is now a youth leader and my oldest daughter, Mickie, plays the piano at her church.

My grandchildren are now the age my children were then and I have not seen them play church like they did. So I talked to God about it.  I wondered if it was because of the lack of worship they are seeing from us.  Our children and their friends could immitate every shouter and aisle runner in our church but I had not seen my grandchildren imitate anyone worshipping.

Yesterday, God answered my prayer. 

My grandaughter, Summer came over with her cousin, Shelby, and I could tell they had been crying.  She said, "Grandma, we were reading the book of Revelation and how God was not pleased with the churches and we just started praying and walking around the add-on (a big family room they built on to their house) and we were speaking in tongues!" They were not just playing church, they were having church.

When I pray at our prayer meetings at church, I walk and pray.  Imitating?  I could only hope that I could have that kind of influence. 

Lord, help us be an example to our children of this next generation. Don't let us be the generation that drops the ball in passing on these truths with prayer, worship and Godly living.