Questions?
I was born with questions running through my bloodstream. If I see something or hear something there is a question which pops out. I've recently realised that the Evangelical Establishment neither encourages nor requires questions. One is to believe what one is told (a bit like I imagine the Roman church is ....). In churches where there ARE questions people sometimes move to a different place. Where tradition reigns, this is definitely undesirable.
The fact that many h.sers end up isolated in their own churches is that they have questions which arise from practical application of the Bible to everyday family life. Such issues are not dealt with in the pulpit of the Evangelical Establishment - therefore parents have to look elsewhere for the answers. The alternative is to go along withe the tradition and abandon the children to the 'sunday school' and 'youth group' culture of the church and hope for the best. It's not encouraging - there are not many pillars of the church who have been chiselled out in the church's 'youth ministry' program. Why is it that no-one thinks to question the 'value-for-money' aspect of youth ministry which is so greedy of the time and resources of the church? It's just like the government's insistance that the answer to 'teenage pregnancy' is 'more and earlier sex education'. More 'education' happens and then more teenage pregnancy happens - and nobody asks if there might be a cause-and-effect factor.....

What I'd like to understand is: why do some people ask questions and others don't?