Today I was in church watching the kids sitting there in their seats. Forced to go by their parents, they showed no interest at all in the proceedings around them, be it the sermon, notices, or the worship and singing. It seemed to me that they were really only enduring their time in the seat until it was over and they could once again be free to play and have fun. This brought me to thinking about the service of a church and many other aspects of it. But to stay on topic, I started to ask myself why it was that the kids were just not interested. I also started asking if the adults were any more interested in the whole proceedings or if they too were enduring it all out of a religious duty or some other motivation not related to the proceedings. So where is this power that Christians had? This authority? This essence of a life that shows God is real? Why is church such a show? It has been very few times that I have entered a church and felt the presence of God there. When that presence was there, even when I was completely exhausted I remained attentive and interested in everything. It felt like I was drinking in the atmosphere around me. Most of the times that I am in church it feels dry and painful. Many times I am relieved when it is over. How can this be? Why is it so bad? If there is no reality then the kids are not going to be interested. Sure, they may end up "Churchified" and good religious people, but that has nothing to do with God. It is time that we started to return to the truth of life with Christ. That we started living and obeying God in such a way as to be in His presence. Otherwise our testimony as a church holds no strength at all, but instead starts to turn people away from Christ. The Bible says that if we disobey God, if we have sin in our lives, if we are proud and selfish amongst other things, then God will distance Himself from us. Could this be the problem with chuch today? If God was present in the church... really present in the church, then it would show up not only amongst the adults, but also amongst the kids too. Kids in church... they tell you a lot.