WW--Easter Isn’t For Young Children

~It’s essentially a story about a bloody, brutal, evil murder where someone is tortured to death. If I told you that I wanted to tell your 6-year-old about something like that, you’d not only refuse, but you’d be scandalized that I would even have thought you might say yes.
~As the Passion of the Christ demonstrated, the Crucifixion is certainly an R-rated historical event.
~Children are at least as likely to have nightmares about this as they are to find anything valuable in it.
~Would you let your children watch an execution if it were televised?
~Explain to me what good it does to tell a child over and over again that he’s a sinner who needed Christ to die for him so that he wouldn’t go to hell and burn forever in a lake of fire no matter how much he begged for it to end.
~There is a particular sort of process involved in bringing someone to Christ. This process does not begin with the ending, and yet exposing children to the cross and the resurrection of Christ too early is like skipping ahead to the ending.
~They must be taught the law and the holiness of God and to avoid sin and how impossible that is before they can properly appreciate Easter.
~You wonder why so many kids leave the faith? Perhaps it’s because the way we teach them about Jesus is to give them an easy solution before they even can comprehend the problem they are suffering from.
~How can you contemplate the betrayal, abandonment, and Crucifixion of Jesus while looking at a purple pastel plastic egg with a tootsie roll in it?
~We withhold information about many important things in life from children because they aren’t prepared to understand them properly.
~It’s obviously very difficult to find kid-friendly ways of teaching Easter, so why not just avoid it altogether?

Links on Easter:
The Crucifixion's PG rating by Beliefnet.com
Children and the crucifixion by BBC.co.uk
Teaching children about Holy Week by Cartoonnetworkhq.com
How to explain the resurrection to children by Ehow.com
Teaching kids about Easter by Associatedcontent.com
Stations of the cross for children by Books.Google.com