Somebody sent me this link with the youngest “preacher” in the world and I really am torn on how to take it. Check THIS out and come back….
Okay, so I have a preacher’s kid (PK if you will) who every Sunday about mic check time goes to the platform sits on his daddies stool and begins to deliver some 4 year old theology such as “God is bigger than all the monsters.” No jokes… that is deep if you begin to think about all the monsters we face in life.
But I am wondering if his daddy was a yeller who spit over the first three rows when he preached could this be my kid? I guess the answer is probably yes, and I would think that it is great and be proud just like when he teaches from my stool. But would I then take valuable service time to hand my son a microphone and see hom many amens he could get as peop,e pretend that they can understand him?
So I am unsure, but do you find this cute, disturbing, in bad taste, “raising them up in the way they should go”, or other?
When I first saw this clip I thought it was funny, till I saw the people yelling “Amen!” This, in a clip, defines religion.
Personally I found this to be rather disturbing. It may be “religion” but I’m not sure it was ordained by God. It was getting the crowd all worked up, but was it worship? Maybe if I was a member of he church and knew the little boy and his family I might have a different opinion. I think the little boy was just imitating his daddy just like all little boys try to do, just like what Owen is doing on your stool with your mic. He just wants to be like his father. And when he is older and understands he will want to be just like The Father.
Truthfully I would not have let him do this during a service. But the boy learned early what is “expected” in that flavor of church. He mimics well, which is frightening to me. If he was under the unction of the Holy Spirit and had that certain “flair” then I would be amazed.
My kids act out what they see me doing, but when they are on the PLATform, they better not PERform.
It’s only cute in the right place. If you are busy with God, you aren’t going to hand over the mic to a cute kid, you get down to business.
I rate this as “other”. Okay to do, but in the right time and place.