Connecting Church & Home
by Tim Kimmel
152 pages
Published February 19, 2013
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Synopsis:
Tim Kimmel gives a comprehensive strategy to churches for family ministry as well as a plan for parents seeking to pass their faith to the next generation. He shares valuable tools for the church to use to build a strong family ministry. A child who has seen grace lived out in front of him at church and at home is much more inclined toward staying committed to a relationship with God into adulthood. So Kimmel shares what a grace-based family ministry looks like in a local church. He also teaches parents how to translate every part of ministry they are exposed to at church to translate into spiritual training at home.
Review:
I’ve enjoyed this book a lot. Having heard about Grace based-parenting I was afraid it was going to be a lot of feel good, gushy type stuff. It was actually filled with pretty good advice. (Though he could have spent less time on the problems. I think if you are reading the book you already know the problems church children’s ministries are facing. You pick up a book like this to find answers not to delve into the problems more.)
That aside, once he gets going with the napkin illustration the book is pretty good. And I like that he gives you lot of resources at the end because this is a book about ideas to apply those ideas you will need resources and curriculum.
Bottom Line:
A book on how churches and parents can work together that gives you some good resources not just good ideas.
“It’s easy to slip into the trap of moving from the simple to the complex when we are trying to transfer faith into the next generation. Grace goes the other direction. It takes our challenges and distills them down into far more simple and manageable issues.” – Connecting Church & Home
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