Can I Leave My Sick Child in the Church Nursery Because “By Jesus’ Stripes He Was Healed?”

Your church probably has a policy against this, and if it does, you need to follow it.

This may be an inconvenience to you, but it would be an inconvenience to everyone else if you brought little Sneezie in and got the other kids sick.  You can check to see if you can sit in the back of the main service with Sneezie.

Unless your child’s healing has manifested completely, in which case there is no question anyway, your child will be considered sick for purposes of contagion.  Do not protest that your child was “healed by the stripes of Jesus.”  When that manifests, the nursery workers will be happy to take him in.  Until then, forget it.  If your child is still physically sick, he may well still be physically contagious!

You may protest that you are standing in faith, but if you are, you should soon get to the point where little Sneezie’s nose is no longer flowing like a mighty river, and then you’ll be able to drop him off.

And please, do the workers a favor and don’t try to clean him up and hand him off between coughs and sneezes and make a run for the sanctuary before the workers figure out what’s going on.  I worked in a church nursery for several years, and I never liked it when people did that.