If you work in children's ministry or are a parent of children under the age of 13, this book is MUST reading! Then pass it on to your children's pastor, senior pastor and Sunday school teachers. Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions is full of research-based facts that reveal an alarming truth. Most parents and children fail to realize that a child's moral development is SET by the age of nine. Author George Barna invites us to seize the opportunity to equip parents and church leaders who will cultivate a biblical worldview in children, transforming them into spiritual champions. We must work together to teach very young children to think and act like Jesus.

Readers will be shocked to learn that statistically nine of ten young people consider themselves Christians by age 13. Further assessing reveals that only 34% of those children are born again. Pressed even further, only 4% would strongly affirm the accuracy of Biblical teachings, that one's ability to attain eternal salvation is through the grace of God and Jesus' death and resurrection or even that Satan exists as a real being not merely a symbol of evil. Barna's research discovered the probability of children accepting Jesus as their Savior is 32% for ages 5-12; 4% for ages 13-18 and 6% for those 19 and older. Get this book! Reading it will compel you to keep the bar of seeking excellence high and to never give up or quit trying to impact a young child's life with the Truth and a biblical worldview!

CMUO Course:
(CMU 363) Pastoring Children
(CMU 493) Children's Ministries Conference