Book Review

Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions by George Barna, this was a great read...highly recommend ALL pastors to read this one. Barna basically states that after years of research on the development and growth of adults in their Christianity/Spirituality that they missed the Ocean!! He talks about the importance of investing into the next generation Christians and how it's ultimately the parents responsibility first then the churches to help educated and disciple the little ones. As I read through this book my heart became more and more aware that what Barna was saying was exactly right. I guess it just resonated well with my soul, now that I am the Director of Family Ministries at Overflow and very focused on our children's minisry right now. Whatever the case maybe, I just know that my eyes have been open to how we as a church and parents need to really step it up a notch in our discipleship to our children. We must begin to take measurable steps towards tracking the spiritual development of our children from nursery up through High School. He talks about how to go about doing this and that it may even seem far fetched for some, but don't we owe it to ourselves and to our children. Not only that but we will all be held accountable for all that God entrusts to us as stewards of all that is ultimately his, even our children. This is a must read!