How do kids get involved in a church if their parents don't go? Do they go with their friends?
Friends, their parents, grandparents. One of my best friends used to drag me to Sunday services with her, if her grandmother didn't see her there every Sunday in the pew behind her she would never hear the end about it all week long.
The woman was a generally nasty human being, if she cracked a smile you would swear it was going to break her face, but she was a totally different person at church. I found it interesting....and rather sad.
Had other friends whose parents where heavily involved in the church and you never knew when you would end up at church if you came over to spend the night. That came to an abrupt end when I was around 12 or so and their oldest son got caught playing house with the pastor's wife.
My son had one grandmother doing the
routine and the other with her
...trying to mediate that some days was a real blast.
I too, want him to be able to think for himself on the matter.