Is AWANA acceptable to any strongly moderate churches?

[William Thornton]

[KeithE]

[Ed Pettibone]

Rick W. wrote [quote]I cannot and will not... Heck - I refuse to use any material "as is..."

ED: Amen Brother! Preach on! Preach On!

So they don't require senior pastors to sign off on their statement of belief any more, WHY? Could it be that they figure if the Senior pastor is not involved, he will not even realize what they are promoting.

[Mark]

[Mark]

[William Thornton]

[William Thornton]

[William Thornton]

[RGC]

[rickwright01]

[Sandy]

[Tony]

AWANA, is like most things in the church structure. It is only as strong as the leadership allows it to be.

There may be multiple reasons as to why an AWANA leader would allow the program to be strong, weak or anywhere in between. The list for such reasons, in my perspective, is not worth making. Such a list would be very long and it is, IMO, a non-debatable issue.

I, personally, think it unfair to suggest that AWANA families are:

Disclaimer: I note this is just an observation from Sandy:

QUOTE from Sandy:
What I have observed is that people who push the AWANA program get ugly, turn a deaf ear and threaten to pull their support from the church unless it goes along with what they want.

This type of attitude seems to be rampant among many in the Baptist family on just about every issue in the church.

I think one could make a similar parallel with the SBC / CBF division.

I am not trying to start an argument, just wanting to make a personal observation from my own bias.

Tony

[RGC]

[William Thornton]

[Sandy]

I'm surprised that AWANA is so appealing to so many conservative Southern Baptists. It doesn't build any loyalty to either their missions programs, or to the so-called "conservative resurgence," They can't control the program.

I'd be willing to bet that most SBC high-level leaders aren't happy that AWANA is becoming so popular in their churches.

[Ed Pettibone]