Factor four: entrusting kids with real ministry responsibility early

Factor four is being entrusted with responsibility in a ministry at an early age — not a token job title but an active role displaying Christ to others on their own. The hosts argue the goal is getting kids standing on their own two feet while parents can still hold their hands, comparing it to choosing between a good dinner and a mess of fudge rounds once freedom arrives. Two of the hosts testify that the first four factors were not true for them either, one having left church at seventeen and returned around twenty-five; Nathaniel says all five were true for him though some of his siblings still left.