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[quote=Anonymous]Well, the “I’m carrying a 15 year old to the car” screams troll. But, if you are not, we are regular churchgoers and have a 14 year old that doesn’t want to attend. We have a variety of compromises that we agree upon each week. Part of the issue is that she wants to sleep in well past 10 when we need her to get up.

Some weeks, we say she has to go. But she can volunteer for children’s church so she misses the “boring” sermon. Sometimes we agree we will eat out at her favorite place to motivate her to go. Some weeks, she does other volunteer related things through church and that counts. We worked a white flag night with homeless women last week. She did the bake sale for a ministry we have to help keep seniors in their homes. Etc. She needs the volunteer hours for school and it shows her how our church does so much in the local downtown community.

My main goal at this point is that we have exposed her to church and tried to show her what a “good church” looks like. She will quit going in college probably (like most kids do), but she knows enough to come back to it as an adult if there is something meaningful there for her. Forcing her into weekly Sunday 11am service is going to nothing but make it more likely that she NEVER comes back to church. You need to play the long game here. You are going to win the battle and lose the war.[/quote]

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