As well they should. There is nothing wrong with advertising VBS to non-member families. When I was younger, my family did not go to church, but I was allowed to go to VBS because it was FF....fun and free.
As I got a little older, I saw the sign on the local church for Sunday school, and figured Sunday School had to be similar to VBS. I had also attended VBS there. I started showing up and attending Sunday School. Then I started staying for the church services. I was the only one in my family to go to church. Today, with children of my own. I encourage them to go and participate.
VBS reaches many children whom otherwise would not be exposed to Christ.
"But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Mathew 19:14
Before God said that, he admonished everyone in Matthew 18:6:
“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” When I see what the United Methodist are preaching these days, I am reminded by Ephesians 4:14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming, and Isaiah 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. Indeed, God does move in mysterious ways. Out of this chaos in the Methodist Church will come clarity.
True! VBS was huge .with us kids (although we went to baptist church VBS)- it did reach lots of kids who otherwise wouldn’t go to church.
“The spirit listed where it will” meaning that as long as the aord of God is being preached, the ho.y spirit can work in the lives of folks as God’s word will not return void. Paul spoke about men during his time that weren’t exactly following God’s word to a “t”, and he thanked God that at least God’s word was getting out and he was thankful for that. Most churches today fit the category of those men who’s teaching were off some. Some are quite off- but God can and does work even in those churches as long as the word is being given out, and folks seek salvation not through works, or dues, or attendance, but through the holy spirit himself prompting them to true salvation.
They are NOT being exposed to Christ, in most cases it’s a false gospel.