Children's Ministry
Children are Open to the Gospel

Children are open to anything and everything. They are sensitive, vulnerable and very impressionable:

• The world knows this and tries to win the children
• The advertisers develop special techniques to influence them.
• The cults and false religions take every opportunity to influence them
• The communists always made it their goal to indoctrinate children from an early age.
  

Unfortunately, the Church of Jesus Christ is not always so alert, and very often misses opportunities to bring the Gospel to children. You and I need to understand the following biblical facts about children, and how they respond to the Gospel:

• Children are more open to the Gospel than adults. An adult must become like a child before he can be saved. A child already is a child, and God can use the childlike qualities he possesses (trustfulness, openness and humility) to lead him to Christ: (Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15)
• The older a person is the harder he becomes, and the less likely he is to trust Jesus Christ: (Ecclesiastes 12:1); Psalm 78:7-8)
• The teaching of God's Word can have a deep effect on children's lives, and impressions and influences implanted in childhood are lasting. Win a child and you win an adult: (2 Timothy 3:15; Proverbs 22:6)

These biblical facts show us how important it is to evangelize the children. If they are open to the Gospel; if they are ready to listen; if these are the years of opportunity and the years when they are being formed; if it will be harder to reach them in later years- then it will be a tragedy, and very unwise, if we don't evangelize them -NOW.

Article taken from
"How to Evangelize Children"
by Sam Doherty,
Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc., May 2003