Christian Mom, Make Church Nonnegotiable

Attending church with little kids can feel a little bit like wrangling monkeys. But in the long view, faithful church participation is always worth it.

The best way for us to find joy and contentment in our calling as moms --or any calling for that matter --is to grow in our fear of the Lord. And one of the primary tools God uses to build up his saints is the local church.

As Eugene Peterson has argued, corporate worship “gives us our frame for life – it grounds us, centers us, and unifies us.”

Or put in Kira words, church participation provides us a structure of growth for our vertical relationship with God and structure of our growth in horizontal relationship with one another.

Listen in as we chat through some basic benefits of church attendance, the Biblical directives to gather, and a peek into what Nelson Sunday mornings look like.