Did you ever stop to think about the bus parents faith? I don't know about you but it would take a lot of trust for me to send my kids off in a bus with older kids I do not know, adults I do not know, to a place I have never visited.
Many of these parents were once bus kids too and the bus ministry to them IS church. To them sending their child on the bus is as natural as a bedtime prayer, they themselves are just unable to make it. For whatever reason they grew older and stopped going to church, but they send their kids. Amen!?! Something inside of them clings to the 'faith' of their youth. We need to work prayerfully and diligently to win these folks back.
Some of them however got hooked up in drugs either dealing or using, many just got 'too busy' for Jesus, many are just trying to use Sunday to recoup from the damage of Monday through Saturday in the world. We need to help them come to Christ, or come back to Christ, whichever the case may be.
Now I know many of the bus parents like having a 'sitter' on Sunday morning so they can sleep in, or go shopping, or do 'Lord knows what'. Some few of them perhaps could even care less whether their kid even returns home. All the more reason we should love, and pray, and work to reach them.
Did you ever stop to think about the bus parents faith? Those kids who grasp and accept the gospel, those kids who have come to know Jesus. Don't you know their hearts break to see their families saved. Don't you know their little faith hopes to see the day. Don't you know Jesus delights to answer their prayers, don't you know that Jesus cares more about mom and dad than the bus kid does! We need to tell them, the bus parents, about Jesus! Not a Jesus who is distant and unmoved by their pain, but the Jesus Who died for their sin, Who was buried in a borrowed tomb, and Who was resurrected for their justification. (Romans 4:25) The Jesus Who knocks on their souls portal and says, 'Please, Will you let Me in?'. Jesus will not force them, but we must tell them!
He must increase, WE must decrease!
