Many parents need help teaching their children the important messages of the Gospel and about Christianity, which can often be too inaccessible for their young and wandering minds. In The Scoobs, pastor Bobbie Horning helps parents to teach children these lessons through flying feline animals call “scoobs” who live in Scoobtown. Among other lessons, one that is the most resonant is one that is often the most difficult to teach: real versus fake Christianity.

Even for adults, it can be challenging to distinguish the difference between people who say that they are Christians from the ones who actually follow Christ’s word. Horning presents a group of scoobs who do not behave in a Christian manner after the worship service is over; “For the Scoobs on the East Side, oh they'd show up for church! But once church was over, they'd act oh so awful! They'd fuss and they'd fight and not do the word. They go to bad movies and say those bad words.”

Horning juxtaposes these scoobs with the faithful Westside scoobs, who were obedient Christians, giving God their tithes and spending time with the Bible every day. They know how to love others and use every opportunity to witness to others; these scoobs are blessed.

The Scoobs is a powerful allegory that connects to children on their level, while teaching them important lessons about Christianity. This book is the perfect gift for the young Christian in your family, strengthening your faiths as you read about Christianity together as a family.

Bobbie Horning
Bobbie Horning has served in ministry for the past 13 years and now pastors a church in Ostrander, Minnesota. No matter what age, Horning’s greatest passions are helping the lost to come to know Jesus as their Lord and for Christians to grow up in the Word.