On Becoming a Christian While Young

[575 words] As a young boy, I remember the excitement of the prospect of becoming a Christian and being allowed to take a part in the work of the church as an added benefit. All the boys and girls in the churches where I worshiped made decisions for Christ at reasonably early ages. I don’t mean by this that they were 7, 8, or 9 years old, but by the time they were 12 to 13 years of age, most of them had obeyed the Gospel. I remember one young man who still had not done so clear into our senior year in high school. He never missed coming to class and services, but never obeyed the Gospel. I worried about him. I’ve always believed that children mature at different rates, and there must be an allowance for this in our considering whether one is old enough that we should…