Would you allow your teen to go to church event with friend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord, OP, google Unbroken. It's the Louis Zamparini story - incredible survival story from WWII. The book was written by the same person who wrote Seabiscuit. It's supposed to be good.

I go to a hippy dippy liberal church and we have movie nights where people often bring friends. It's a nice free night. No religion needed.

Do you pray at any point during movie night? Does Jesus get brought up at any time during movie night? If the answer to either of those is "yes" then I would not let my kid go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unbroken is not religious but it is boring.

My catholic kids go to bar mitzvahs.

So, yes I would let my child go.

No one is trying to convert you at a bar mitzvah.

[Anonymous]

OP, there is no Church of Kentucky. Which church (what denomination, what kind of church) is having the movie night your daughter has been invited to? And what kinds of conversations have you had with your daughter about your and her father's feelings and beliefs about religion(s)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What denomination is the church?

This. Is your daughter being invited to watch a movie at church, or is she being invited to watch a movie, confess her sins, and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior?

[Anonymous]

Op are you a democrat?

[Anonymous]

This is everything that is wrong with America right here. OP, if you have questions about the event or the kid, call up the mom. Say, "I heard you guys are new here. Let's have coffee." Instead, you gossip about this mom you've never met on an internet forum. You check with the other liberals to find out what the correct PC response is. The correct human response is to get to know the other family, particularly if they're new to the area. Have them over for dinner. Welcome them to DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What denomination is the church?

This. Is your daughter being invited to watch a movie at church, or is she being invited to watch a movie, confess her sins, and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal savior?

This. Is just a youth group activity or is it an activity where the youth group is supposed to be evangelizing their friends?

Your daughter wants to go because she wants to hang out with her friend. That's normal for a kid.

[Anonymous]

Well at least they won't be drugging and drinking like the non Christians

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is everything that is wrong with America right here. OP, if you have questions about the event or the kid, call up the mom. Say, "I heard you guys are new here. Let's have coffee." Instead, you gossip about this mom you've never met on an internet forum. You check with the other liberals to find out what the correct PC response is. The correct human response is to get to know the other family, particularly if they're new to the area. Have them over for dinner. Welcome them to DC.

I don't see any gossip about the mother of the girl from Kentucky. In fact, I don't see any mention at all of the mother of the girl from Kentucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well at least they won't be drugging and drinking like the non Christians

You don't say.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I would let my teen go to an activity at a friend's church. I would probably check out the church website and I would want to meet the parents first but at that age they are ready to make their own friends. I attended a friend's church group activities when I was a teen. It was fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well at least they won't be drugging and drinking like the non Christians

You don't say.

Not at a movie AT the church...but church goers aren't necessarily saints all the time either. So, yeah, you still have to keep an eye on those kiddos.

[Anonymous]

Hey, OP, did you know there are Baha'is in Kentucky?

Unitarians?

Sufis?

As a flaming liberal whose kid invites his friends to go to youth group events at our church (they're just social, no overt praying), I suggest you examine your assumptions.

[Anonymous]

What a weird post. What are you afraid of, exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What denomination is the church?

That is the real question. Look up the church. For some churches, a movie night is just that. There might be a prayer at some point, but no biggie.

For other churches, any event is an opportunity to evangelize. I would definitely have a conversation with your kid about that if it is that kind of church. I would be iffy about sending my kid to a church where someone is likely to ask her to give her heart to Jesus and/or that she is going to hell.