Should We Build Churches Around Age Integration?

Maybe you want to be in a family-integrated church—it's a disaster to build a church around that. God-glorifying churches are built around God, the Gospel, His Word, and obedience to His ways. When churches form around anything smaller than these things, they are headed for trouble—with God and man. Churches built around homeschooling, family integration, fatherhood, entrepreneurialism, community, taking dominion, adoption, abortion—whatever—will always dishonor the name of Christ by setting their gaze on what might perhaps be fruits of obedience to the Word of God, rather than God Himself. While I am an advocate of age-integrated discipleship in the church, I have seen churches make this the central consideration. This is always a mistake. The central consideration of discussion is the centrality of God in the church.