The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer Once a highly influential preacher

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

The inaugural volume in the HOTE series

For the last twelve years of his life Vincent preached to a congregation in Hand Alley

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The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer Once a highly influential preacherPublic 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,