Let's consider the passage at Matthew 19:13-14: "Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them. Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'"
What was the lesson Jesus had for the disciples here? Why did the disciples rebuke those who brought the little children to the Lord? Perhaps they were annoyed that these people would bring children and in so doing delay Jesus and the disciples' journey. Perhaps they felt it was an interruption in their "important" discussions. In any case, Jesus made it clear that the children were never to be turned away.
Have you ever sat in a church where the children were asked to leave the service, to go to "children's church" (whatever that's supposed to be, I have yet to find it in the Bible) in order that the adults not be inconvienced or interrupted during the sermon? What would Jesus say? Would he say "separate the children from their parents, take them away from me as I speak words of truth through my under-shepherd, the minister"?
Sometimes we have all the good intentions in the world, as I'm sure the disciples thought they did. But the road to hell is littered with good intentions. The word for children in the passage I quoted is understood to be little children ranging from infants to 6 year olds. These children are to sit before the Lord and his teachers. This was the case for Hebrew children during the biblical times. It was the case in our early history in this country. It is only now, in our selfishness, that we turn the children out.
Children learn not only from what is being preached, but especially when they are very young they learn from watching their parent's interaction with the service. Seeing how their parents praise God in song and prayer. By watching how attentitively the parents listen to the sermon and take notes on relevant points. How the parents talk about the sermon points throughout the week with them. By seeing how their parents put into action what they are learning. It is through this that children learn about God, what it means to be a Christian and what faith is all about and how its lived. Not by being sent off to watch a movie or listen to a talk that might impart some information. They learn by watching mom and dad every day, including Sunday. That's what changes a child's life. How prideful are we if we think we can take over mom and dad's job?
Jesus would never "dismiss the children" ... let's make sure we don't either.
Monday, March 28, 2005
Sunday, March 27, 2005
The Spider's Web
At the heart of all our thinking, of the way we view everything, is a set of core beliefs. Do you know what yours are? Some I have met can articulate their core beliefs well, others cannot. And just because you can articulate them well, doesn't mean that they are well thought out. More on that shortly.
We can think of all our beliefs like a giant spider web. The web a spider weaves is interesting and very durable. Portions of the web can be knocked down or even cut up with no significant effect to the web as a whole. That's the way it is with our worldview, with the way we view life and make decisions. Assume we believe in infant baptism, and someone comes along and tells us that the only valid form of baptism is baptism of believers and not baptism of infants, and they are able to prove it. This will presumably change your belief. But since its not one of your core or fundamental beliefs, life will go on without much significant change.
But what if someone came along and told you that Jesus sinned while he was on this earth, and was able to prove it. If this were the case, then Jesus' death for you wouldn't pay the price for your sins and you'd still be dead in your sins and transgressions. This would strike at your most core beliefs and begin to tear down your whole worldview. Nothing would be the same again.
Just like the spider web has just a few key strands that hold it up and has many other strands that aren't vital, so our worldview has a few core fundamental strands that we are unwilling to let go lest it require us to change our whole lives. That's why it often takes a significant event in persons life before they "see the light" and realize their need for salvation. God calls them into his Kingdom and often uses a significant event to do so.
What is one of the most core strands of your worldview? Whether Christian or not, it seems autonomy is at the center, or one of the most core of all strands. Think about it, if God is sovereign over all and we are accountable to him, then we are not autonomous. The unbeliever holds to the belief, in one fashion or another that they are autonomous, that they are the decider of right and wrong, the determiner of truth.
For the believer, though, God is the determiner of truth, the standard of right and wrong and we submit to him, understanding that we are not autonomous. Remember the First Commandment? "You shall have no other gods before Me." We are to put nothing before God. If we become the decider of right and wrong, then we are the judge, we are autonomous, and what God says becomes irrelevant ... if we so choose.
I'm afraid that the sad truth is that most Christians have found a place for God in their lives but have hung on to their need for autonomy in one or more areas. In so doing they have denied God. Let us examine our hearts. Have we really yielded to the Lord every area of our life? Have we submitted every area of life and all our choices to his written word? Paul told us in Philippians that we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. It is of the utmost importance. Won't you look into your heart today and see which area's you are holding on to. Let them go. Satan used the desire for autonomy to lure Eve into sin that fateful day. Let's not make the same mistake today.
We can think of all our beliefs like a giant spider web. The web a spider weaves is interesting and very durable. Portions of the web can be knocked down or even cut up with no significant effect to the web as a whole. That's the way it is with our worldview, with the way we view life and make decisions. Assume we believe in infant baptism, and someone comes along and tells us that the only valid form of baptism is baptism of believers and not baptism of infants, and they are able to prove it. This will presumably change your belief. But since its not one of your core or fundamental beliefs, life will go on without much significant change.
But what if someone came along and told you that Jesus sinned while he was on this earth, and was able to prove it. If this were the case, then Jesus' death for you wouldn't pay the price for your sins and you'd still be dead in your sins and transgressions. This would strike at your most core beliefs and begin to tear down your whole worldview. Nothing would be the same again.
Just like the spider web has just a few key strands that hold it up and has many other strands that aren't vital, so our worldview has a few core fundamental strands that we are unwilling to let go lest it require us to change our whole lives. That's why it often takes a significant event in persons life before they "see the light" and realize their need for salvation. God calls them into his Kingdom and often uses a significant event to do so.
What is one of the most core strands of your worldview? Whether Christian or not, it seems autonomy is at the center, or one of the most core of all strands. Think about it, if God is sovereign over all and we are accountable to him, then we are not autonomous. The unbeliever holds to the belief, in one fashion or another that they are autonomous, that they are the decider of right and wrong, the determiner of truth.
For the believer, though, God is the determiner of truth, the standard of right and wrong and we submit to him, understanding that we are not autonomous. Remember the First Commandment? "You shall have no other gods before Me." We are to put nothing before God. If we become the decider of right and wrong, then we are the judge, we are autonomous, and what God says becomes irrelevant ... if we so choose.
I'm afraid that the sad truth is that most Christians have found a place for God in their lives but have hung on to their need for autonomy in one or more areas. In so doing they have denied God. Let us examine our hearts. Have we really yielded to the Lord every area of our life? Have we submitted every area of life and all our choices to his written word? Paul told us in Philippians that we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. It is of the utmost importance. Won't you look into your heart today and see which area's you are holding on to. Let them go. Satan used the desire for autonomy to lure Eve into sin that fateful day. Let's not make the same mistake today.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Dirty Suckers
What is a worldview? A worldview is a set of assumptions by which you interpret life. It is a set of elementary assumptions that form the basis for all your thinking. For instance, if one of your assumptions is that there is no God, then you will need to evaluate all of your observations in life in a way that denies God as the Creator and instead come up with another belief system, like evolution or that aliens planted life here. If on the other hand you acknowledge that God is the Creator of all life and all things, then you will accurately evaluate all your observations in life based on that.
Now, what about dirty suckers? Have you ever watched a young child walk into a room and see a used sucker laying on a table (or even the floor)? What would the child likely do? Pick up the sucker and put it in his mouth! Yuk. You'd probably run right over and stop them, wouldn't you?
Its that way with worldviews. We don't live in a Christian culture, we live in a humanistic culture. The worldview that most around us exhibit is a humanistic worldview full of humanistic assumptions about life. Those assumptions and that worldview is like a pile of dirty suckers. How many have you picked up and put in your mouth?
We tend to think and act like those around us. As Christians, we must carefully evaluate all of our assumptions about life in light of the Bible, God's revealed word to us. Take my example I started with here. Many Christians have bought into the worldview of evolution. Why? Its that dirty sucker they picked up. They believe that science and man's reason, apart from God, is more authoritative than the Bible. They see through man's eyes, not God's eyes. They picked up the sucker of humanism.
Well, you get the idea. We need to evaluate all that we do, all that we think, and all that we understand in terms of the Bible. We must have a biblical worldview in all areas of life. That includes marriage, family life, education, economics, business, politics, social issues, and religion. Do you understand what the Bible says in each of those areas? Open up your Bible and study! Seek out mature Christians who can teach and mentor you in this regard.
As it says in Ephesians 5:15-16 "Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."
Now, what about dirty suckers? Have you ever watched a young child walk into a room and see a used sucker laying on a table (or even the floor)? What would the child likely do? Pick up the sucker and put it in his mouth! Yuk. You'd probably run right over and stop them, wouldn't you?
Its that way with worldviews. We don't live in a Christian culture, we live in a humanistic culture. The worldview that most around us exhibit is a humanistic worldview full of humanistic assumptions about life. Those assumptions and that worldview is like a pile of dirty suckers. How many have you picked up and put in your mouth?
We tend to think and act like those around us. As Christians, we must carefully evaluate all of our assumptions about life in light of the Bible, God's revealed word to us. Take my example I started with here. Many Christians have bought into the worldview of evolution. Why? Its that dirty sucker they picked up. They believe that science and man's reason, apart from God, is more authoritative than the Bible. They see through man's eyes, not God's eyes. They picked up the sucker of humanism.
Well, you get the idea. We need to evaluate all that we do, all that we think, and all that we understand in terms of the Bible. We must have a biblical worldview in all areas of life. That includes marriage, family life, education, economics, business, politics, social issues, and religion. Do you understand what the Bible says in each of those areas? Open up your Bible and study! Seek out mature Christians who can teach and mentor you in this regard.
As it says in Ephesians 5:15-16 "Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Neutral, for cars not Christians
Tell me, what's the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian? I hope your answer was everything! Look at what the Bible says. It says the Christian is a child of God, redeemed by Jesus Christ, who will one day spend eternity with God in heaven. The non-Christian isn't a child of God and has only to expect eternity in hell. The Christian seeks to show his love for God by living in obedience to all that God has commanded. The non-Christian lives each day for anything but God. He denies his Creator and rebels against Him.
If you start to make a list you will see that there is a great antithesis between Christian and non-Christian. If you like, make a study of the Bible and find how many times God differentiates between believer, unbeliever and the neutrals. You won't find it. God tells us there are no neutrals. He says you are either with Me or against Me. If you die as a "neutral" you'll find out where "neutrals" end up.
So why do people believe that one can be neutral in any area of life? Why do you buy into such thinking? We all get trapped by it from time to time. Every area of our thought life, of our actions, of all that we do, are either in obedience to God or in rebellion. There are no neutral spheres of life.
Take your choice: marriage, education, retirement, church government, civil government, men's roles, women's roles, discipline, welfare, business, recreation, and so forth. Does God give us direction as to what we are to do, or are those neutral areas of life that we can do whatever we choose without regard to Him? You might say "of course not" but what do your actions say?
If we are a child of God, don't you suppose that He is training us in and through every area of life? Don't you suppose He wants us to be obedient to Him in every area of life? Aren't we to be His witness in the world?
This myth of neutrality has blurred the line between what it means to be a Christian and a non-Christian. It is immorality toward God, the One who loved us so much He was willing to die for us.
Paul says in Ephesians 4:17-18 that we are to no longer walk in the ways of the unbeliever. We must choose in every area of life not to behave or live in a way which imitates the behavior of those who are unsaved. Rather, as Paul goes on to say in Ephesians 5:1, we are to be imitators of God as his dearly loved children. There is no middle ground.
Do you have the courage to live for Christ in every area of life? Does your thinking operate under the lordship of Christ, or have you become an enemy of God through neutral, unbelieving thought patterns?
Neutral is for cars, not for Christians. Choose this day whom you will serve!
If you start to make a list you will see that there is a great antithesis between Christian and non-Christian. If you like, make a study of the Bible and find how many times God differentiates between believer, unbeliever and the neutrals. You won't find it. God tells us there are no neutrals. He says you are either with Me or against Me. If you die as a "neutral" you'll find out where "neutrals" end up.
So why do people believe that one can be neutral in any area of life? Why do you buy into such thinking? We all get trapped by it from time to time. Every area of our thought life, of our actions, of all that we do, are either in obedience to God or in rebellion. There are no neutral spheres of life.
Take your choice: marriage, education, retirement, church government, civil government, men's roles, women's roles, discipline, welfare, business, recreation, and so forth. Does God give us direction as to what we are to do, or are those neutral areas of life that we can do whatever we choose without regard to Him? You might say "of course not" but what do your actions say?
If we are a child of God, don't you suppose that He is training us in and through every area of life? Don't you suppose He wants us to be obedient to Him in every area of life? Aren't we to be His witness in the world?
This myth of neutrality has blurred the line between what it means to be a Christian and a non-Christian. It is immorality toward God, the One who loved us so much He was willing to die for us.
Paul says in Ephesians 4:17-18 that we are to no longer walk in the ways of the unbeliever. We must choose in every area of life not to behave or live in a way which imitates the behavior of those who are unsaved. Rather, as Paul goes on to say in Ephesians 5:1, we are to be imitators of God as his dearly loved children. There is no middle ground.
Do you have the courage to live for Christ in every area of life? Does your thinking operate under the lordship of Christ, or have you become an enemy of God through neutral, unbelieving thought patterns?
Neutral is for cars, not for Christians. Choose this day whom you will serve!
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Immoral Christians
What did you think of when you saw that phrase "Immoral Christians?" What would you think if you saw a newspaper headline saying "Christians Caught in Immorality?" Probably that once again someone fell to sexual immorality. Adultery or fornication followed by divorce. Perhaps some might even think of some financial wrong doing. Some ministry leader appropriating funds given the ministry for his own gain.
Those are the usual thoughts, but they don't reflect one of the biggest areas of immorality in the church today. One that is deserving of the headline "Millions of Christians Caught in Rampant Immorality." What am I thinking? Read on.
What did Jesus say was the greatest commandment? Its given to us in Matthew 22:37, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." No one ever thinks about the last part of that commandment. We think about whether we love God with all our heart, all our life, all our emotion. But what about our minds?
Do you love God with all your mind? With the way you think? With the way you reason? Is your thinking biblical? We are called by Him to be diligent in our thought life, in how we reason. It is shocking how biblically unprepared most people are. Most are not thoroughly trained in how to think and reason as a Christian. Most are well trained in how to think and reason humanistically. Did you know that humanism is a religion? That it is anti-God. That is arises from the pits of hell? Did you know that we have all been taught it most of our lives?
It takes some serious work and study, some disciplining of our minds to overcome this. God is willing to help us in this regard if we are willing to apply ourselves. But there, that's the big catch, are we willing to apply ourselves. How about you? Do you study the Bible with a purpose? Do you seek out His great commands, precepts and principles for life? Or is your study unfocused, without purpose?
Choose this day to train up your mind. Participate in some challenging Bible studies, ones that press you outside your comfort zone. Attend a church where there are other mature growing Christians. Seek out other Christians that have and are training their minds, that are being obedient to God and seeking to live Biblically.
You see, God said we are to love Him with all our mind. If we don't do this, then we are not loving Him. There is no neutral ground. If you're not loving Him then you are loving someone or something else. If He is not your first love, then you are a most immoral Christian and that newspaper article is for you. Choose this day who you will serve and love.
Those are the usual thoughts, but they don't reflect one of the biggest areas of immorality in the church today. One that is deserving of the headline "Millions of Christians Caught in Rampant Immorality." What am I thinking? Read on.
What did Jesus say was the greatest commandment? Its given to us in Matthew 22:37, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." No one ever thinks about the last part of that commandment. We think about whether we love God with all our heart, all our life, all our emotion. But what about our minds?
Do you love God with all your mind? With the way you think? With the way you reason? Is your thinking biblical? We are called by Him to be diligent in our thought life, in how we reason. It is shocking how biblically unprepared most people are. Most are not thoroughly trained in how to think and reason as a Christian. Most are well trained in how to think and reason humanistically. Did you know that humanism is a religion? That it is anti-God. That is arises from the pits of hell? Did you know that we have all been taught it most of our lives?
It takes some serious work and study, some disciplining of our minds to overcome this. God is willing to help us in this regard if we are willing to apply ourselves. But there, that's the big catch, are we willing to apply ourselves. How about you? Do you study the Bible with a purpose? Do you seek out His great commands, precepts and principles for life? Or is your study unfocused, without purpose?
Choose this day to train up your mind. Participate in some challenging Bible studies, ones that press you outside your comfort zone. Attend a church where there are other mature growing Christians. Seek out other Christians that have and are training their minds, that are being obedient to God and seeking to live Biblically.
You see, God said we are to love Him with all our mind. If we don't do this, then we are not loving Him. There is no neutral ground. If you're not loving Him then you are loving someone or something else. If He is not your first love, then you are a most immoral Christian and that newspaper article is for you. Choose this day who you will serve and love.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Might They Call The Evil ... Good?
Occasionally one comes across a news item that is so ... something ... that words can't do it justice. I'll just share it here with you, for whatever its worth.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton was recently listed as the "most admired woman" in America according to a Gallup Organization poll. The article went on to say that in other polls she has been ranked "as the most corrupt person in America and the sixth most evil person of the last millennium."
What's interesting is that Mrs. Clinton has come in first or second on the "most admired" list every year for the last 12 years.
The point of my comment is not to praise or denounce Mrs. Clinton but to give you a prime example of the thinking of a non-Christian. It would seem most Americans live and think as unbelievers. The Bible tells us that the unbeliever (and the unrepentant Christian) will not only do wrong but can be expected to approve of those who do likewise. Look around, you'll see it every day.
Romans 1:32 says: "Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
Here we have an interesting if not sad example of what God tells us. God gives us His word that we might know how to live and think. Let's use this as a reminder that we might conform our thinking to His word as see evil as evil and good as good.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton was recently listed as the "most admired woman" in America according to a Gallup Organization poll. The article went on to say that in other polls she has been ranked "as the most corrupt person in America and the sixth most evil person of the last millennium."
What's interesting is that Mrs. Clinton has come in first or second on the "most admired" list every year for the last 12 years.
The point of my comment is not to praise or denounce Mrs. Clinton but to give you a prime example of the thinking of a non-Christian. It would seem most Americans live and think as unbelievers. The Bible tells us that the unbeliever (and the unrepentant Christian) will not only do wrong but can be expected to approve of those who do likewise. Look around, you'll see it every day.
Romans 1:32 says: "Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
Here we have an interesting if not sad example of what God tells us. God gives us His word that we might know how to live and think. Let's use this as a reminder that we might conform our thinking to His word as see evil as evil and good as good.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Me a Missionary?
Have you ever thought about giving to missions? Helping to support our missionaries here and abroad. Have you ever thought about being a missionary? Jesus gave us all a command to be missionaries in Matthew 28:19-20 He said:
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
Make disciples of all nations. I guess that would mean our nation too. Where should we start? The best place to look is the place that God put us in. Are we being faithful missionaries at home? Think about it for minute. What does a missionary do? He is sent to a group of people who often know little or nothing about our Savior. He makes every effort through prayer and diligence to introduce them to Christ and once they are saved to teach them all that Jesus commanded that they might show their love for the Savior by living obediently to Him.
Now what is a parent if not a missionary to their children? These little ones are given to the parents by God. The little ones know little or nothing about our Savior. God calls the parent to make every effort through prayer and diligence to introduce them to Christ and once they are saved to teach them all that Jesus commanded that they might show their love for the Savior by living obediently to Him. (And that our children might do the same for their children one day.)
What an awful thing when parents are off worrying about the rest of the world and dropping the ball on the mission field God first laid before them. I'm not saying that we should ignore the needs of others, but I am saying that the Bible teaches our responsibility to the little lives God blesses us with first. As and after we have been obedient to that, then we can look to the needs of others.
Don't get so caught up in the affairs and busyness of life that you forget the mission field God put you on as a parent. What an awesome responsibility and privilege. Don't miss it.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you."
Make disciples of all nations. I guess that would mean our nation too. Where should we start? The best place to look is the place that God put us in. Are we being faithful missionaries at home? Think about it for minute. What does a missionary do? He is sent to a group of people who often know little or nothing about our Savior. He makes every effort through prayer and diligence to introduce them to Christ and once they are saved to teach them all that Jesus commanded that they might show their love for the Savior by living obediently to Him.
Now what is a parent if not a missionary to their children? These little ones are given to the parents by God. The little ones know little or nothing about our Savior. God calls the parent to make every effort through prayer and diligence to introduce them to Christ and once they are saved to teach them all that Jesus commanded that they might show their love for the Savior by living obediently to Him. (And that our children might do the same for their children one day.)
What an awful thing when parents are off worrying about the rest of the world and dropping the ball on the mission field God first laid before them. I'm not saying that we should ignore the needs of others, but I am saying that the Bible teaches our responsibility to the little lives God blesses us with first. As and after we have been obedient to that, then we can look to the needs of others.
Don't get so caught up in the affairs and busyness of life that you forget the mission field God put you on as a parent. What an awesome responsibility and privilege. Don't miss it.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
70% deceived
As a Christian parent does your faith make a difference in your life? Think about it in relation to your children. When God sent those little blessings into your life, what was the purpose? Why did He give them to you? When they leave your home one day to raise up their own families, what do you hope to have accomplished in their lives?
I read a Barna research report today that surveyed parents thoughts on this very subject. I was shocked at the results. Barna found that 70% of born again Christian parents did not include their child's salvation as a critical parental emphasis. Can you believe that?
We need to understand that the very first place the Great Commission should be worked out is in the lives of our children! Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 28 to reach people for salvation and then to train them up to obey His commands. Do you suppose this applies first and foremost to strangers and people in far away lands? No, it starts first at home with the children He gives you. This is your FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT duty as a parent. God wants you to be devoted to introducing your children to Christ and then discipling them.
85% of Christian parents delegate the training up of their children to the school system. How may of those children will be introduced to Christ and discipled to obey His commands? Remember what I wrote previously about the Supreme Court's ruling about even displaying the Commandments in schools? No, we wouldn't want to do that, they just might meditate on those Commandments and obey them! Those children aren't going to be discipled for Christ there, but they will be discipled for humanism, for the idea that truth is relative, that they can decide to live however they want, that God isn't the creator of the universe and that they came from a puddle of slime by chance billions of years ago.
Well if 70% of Christian parents don't understand why God sent those children to them much less their duty relative to the Great Commission, what should we expect of our children? Should they be any different than the world? Is it any wonder that Christian children grow up to be just as involved in adultery, divorce, living together unmarried, and so forth as non-Christians?
Let's take some time to study God's word and see what the life purpose is for these children God blessed us with. Let's see what it says about how and what it is we are to teach them. Lives are at stake here. Lives for all of eternity. This is no small matter, your child's destiny is at stake. Will you invest the time to learn? Will you invest the time to teach them? Or is your child's eternal destiny not that important compared to what you want to do? Don't bother answering that, you actions will show where your heart is.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength. Listen and obey what He says this day.
I read a Barna research report today that surveyed parents thoughts on this very subject. I was shocked at the results. Barna found that 70% of born again Christian parents did not include their child's salvation as a critical parental emphasis. Can you believe that?
We need to understand that the very first place the Great Commission should be worked out is in the lives of our children! Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 28 to reach people for salvation and then to train them up to obey His commands. Do you suppose this applies first and foremost to strangers and people in far away lands? No, it starts first at home with the children He gives you. This is your FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT duty as a parent. God wants you to be devoted to introducing your children to Christ and then discipling them.
85% of Christian parents delegate the training up of their children to the school system. How may of those children will be introduced to Christ and discipled to obey His commands? Remember what I wrote previously about the Supreme Court's ruling about even displaying the Commandments in schools? No, we wouldn't want to do that, they just might meditate on those Commandments and obey them! Those children aren't going to be discipled for Christ there, but they will be discipled for humanism, for the idea that truth is relative, that they can decide to live however they want, that God isn't the creator of the universe and that they came from a puddle of slime by chance billions of years ago.
Well if 70% of Christian parents don't understand why God sent those children to them much less their duty relative to the Great Commission, what should we expect of our children? Should they be any different than the world? Is it any wonder that Christian children grow up to be just as involved in adultery, divorce, living together unmarried, and so forth as non-Christians?
Let's take some time to study God's word and see what the life purpose is for these children God blessed us with. Let's see what it says about how and what it is we are to teach them. Lives are at stake here. Lives for all of eternity. This is no small matter, your child's destiny is at stake. Will you invest the time to learn? Will you invest the time to teach them? Or is your child's eternal destiny not that important compared to what you want to do? Don't bother answering that, you actions will show where your heart is.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength. Listen and obey what He says this day.
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