Child Evangelism Questions

I’ve been thinking a lot this past week about child evangelism. 

I’ve been asked to give a talk in a few weeks about reaching high-risk children, and that has me thinking a lot about a child’s faith development. 

I simply raise the questions here rather than answer them.

I also invite you to contribute your thoughts in the comment section.

Questions:

1. How do children comprehend faith?
2. How do churches reach children?
3. Why should they reach children?
4. Why should pastors allow resources to be spent in child evangelism?
5. Why bother?
6. How can children’s ministry leaders receive effective training?
7. How can leaders be motivated to reach children when their own passions run low?
8. How do leaders recover when their children disappoint them, seemingly to abandon faith once they leave for college?
9. Is there a best way to reach children?
10. How can a church integrate children into it’s current ministries instead of isolating children’s ministry from the rest of church life?
11. How can children’s leaders call high-risk children to discipleship (where high risk is defined as abused, abandoned, or children of addicted parents)?
12. Does the church partner with the parents in the faith development of children?
13. Does the church take over the faith development of children when non-believing parents allow their kids to participate?
14. How can the church  minister to non-believing parents who don’t come but send their children?
15. Are there simple tools to explain the gospel in age appropriate terms?
16. How much does a child need to understand?
17. How does a church disciple a child and shape their faith as they mature and grow?