will you allow your son to join religious congregation?

My children both believe in God and if they chose to serve God by joining a Congregation, I would be overjoyed and be very supportive. I would not however support them if they chose to join a cult or satanic congregation. I believe in God and encourage both my children to do the same, which they do.

I guess it depends on his age and maturity. It's his decision what he does with his life. It's a parent's duty to advise and encourage. The seminary is not much different to a job or being married (to the church in this case I guess) My brother decided at 16 he wanted to be a brother....that's someone who is a cleric and teaches. He did the first of his final two years of school at the seminary then changed his mind after that small taste. He is now a scientist

If I may ask, what is your real concern over if he/she becomes a full-timer? In my country the reservations come from the notion that ministers have little money unless they join big churches/institutions, they live unpredictable lives in a sense they might move from place to place according to their calls, they are not considered successful because they do not pursue any career professionally, they are to be ready everytime they are called although they are often being looked down. They have to sort of be altogether doctor, caregiver, leader, advisor, etc. with such low pay. What about yours? But all in all, from the day my children are born, I will surrender their lives to God. If God calls them to be ministers, I would be more than happy to support them. They all belong to God, they are only placed temporarily under my care, entrusted by God to be raised accordingly. Whatever God calls them to be, He will get them through it more than I can. After all He is God, the Creator, to Him all things belong and I am only His creation.

If the congregation is not a cult, and really is a way for your son to serve God, encourage him, or at least be open. I see you say it will still be a couple of years, and a lot can happen. I sometimes have to ask myself, if I do not like what my church is doing, or what someone is saying about what they are doing within the church, "Do I really want to get in the way, if this is indeed from God?" Blessings

If God were to call any of my children to be a preacher/priest who am I to protest. After all God knows who and what he needs to get his word out there.

For me religion is a deeply personal issue that every single individual, child or adult, has the inalienable right to decide for themselves. I agree entering a seminary may seem an extreme move as a parent, but many people go through a stage of trying out ideas and bouncing them off their friends and family to see what reaction they are going to get. For others such actions can be responding to a vocation or a calling. Either way it must be an individual choice that has little or nothing to do with anyone else. blessed be much love

Well, assuming that person is not an adult, I would tell them they could join once they became and adult, but while they lived with me they would not be doing anything like that. I am a firm believer that religious exploration should not be allowed until after the chld sees the world without it being filtered with such beliefs. If this was my grown son or daughter then I would be very supportive and want to know more about their choice. I am sur I would find it fascinating.

Well you should let him see wat it is like and in the long run just tell him ur there for him ya kno be there wen he needs u and leave wen he doesnt im sure ur son is old enuf to hold his own so let him

if it was a true thing and not a cult I would love for one of my children to work for the lord and do his work.

I think if this is where his heart is at that point still then why would any one stop him? I don't see where this should be questioned any more than if he wanted to be a truck driver. It is important to me that more people today consider this as an option for thier life. We need it desperatly. You must be a great parent to have reared a god fearing child in this society!