The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer currently as the pastor of

currently as the pastor of St

served on staff with Here's Life Inner City (a division of Cru) for several years and planted a church a decade ago

Once a highly influential preacher in the Elizabethan Church and the international Reformed world

The inaugural volume in the HOTE series

Since the days he shook the pulpits of Victorian London with

The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer currently as the pastor ofPublic worship is the nursery of the Holy Spirit. As you enter the sanctuary, you notice them at once. Then, as you take your seat next to a family, they are right there beside you. Throughout the ensuing service, you see them and hear them. The presence of children in public worship is not only striking, but also increasingly strange in modern American church life. In fact, the idea of your children sitting or standing next to you during prayer,