Training the Next Generation

Deep_Strength · 2018-07-27T17:02:52+00:00

Deut 6:1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Programs are not going to help your kids all that much in the grand scheme of things.

You are responsible for educating your children.

Children will generally think other programs are OK or maybe not even pay much attention to them, but they will take instruction from their parents seriously over time as you are the ones doing life with them. Don't let it be that they're getting all of their education from public school, programs, or even the Church... the Church doesn't do that great a job in many cases.

Red-Curious · 2018-07-30T17:01:09+00:00

I was on vacation when this came out, so I wasn't responding to much ... but this is a good topic that needs to be addressed more: how to raise our kids to know the truth of what God expects in marriage and relationships.

Sadly, there is virtually no content in mainstream Christianity that will give an actual biblical look at relationships. The best I can suggest is to do your own personal study with your kids to address these issues. Don't have it be a 1-2 week thing. Let it be ongoing for months.

Where to start? If physical marriage between a man and woman is parallel to spiritual marriage between Christ and his church, then the pre-spiritual-marriage process (evangelism) should also parallel the pre-phyiscal-marriage process (dating). So, study evangelism. Learn how God draws his bride to himself and how the bride is meant to respond. Consider all the principles of what God will and won't do with non-Christians. Look at how God selects and initiates and pursues, etc. Look at the types of people he rejects and turns away from. These are the guiding principles we have for how we should be seeking a potential spouse as well.

RunawayGrain · 2018-07-27T16:46:50+00:00

What kind of environment do they have at school / around friends?

Title	Training the Next Generation
Author	QuickieStart
Upvotes	8
Comments	11
Date	July 27, 2018 4:43 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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