The value of worship attendance

Do your youth a favor of guaranteeing a life of regular worship by urging, nudging, nagging, tricking them into attending regular corporate worship. We now know that people will “naturally” do what they did as children. If they attended worship as a child they are more likely (by a 3-1 margin) to attend as adults – no matter how miserable they were. If they didn't attend as children they won't as adults. Youth activity worship doesn't do the trick, unless there will be youth activity type worship available to them their whole lives.

Worship is like riding a bicycle. It take practice, getting used to, and, occasionally falling off. But the older you are when you try to learn, the harder it is to learn (and the more it hurts when you fall off).