I addressed the issue of family worship in the most recent newsletter. After completing my newsletter, I came across this quote from Pastor Tom Ascol who affirms what I wrote:
The primary responsibility for teaching your children about God is yours, dear parent. It is not the Sunday school’s, the Church’s, nor the Pastor’s. God has entrusted this important work to you. If you do not invest your time and effort to teach your children about God, be assured someone else will. The television and the theater will teach them that God, if He exists at all, is an irrelevant, indulgent being that is little more than a nice kindly old man. If you do not teach your children truth and righteousness, be assured that there are a multitude of teachers in this world who would deceive them into thinking that “truth” and morality are relative ideas and can be shaped to fit anyone’s beliefs or standards.
Parents, again, the eighteen or so years we have our children at home is a crucial time! The home is God's primary strategy for ensuring the gospel will impact a generation we as adults won't see. Let's get busy!
I agree! We only have a short time to train up our children.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the article in the April newsletter. I think children should be required to sit in the worship service. It teaches them that church is not about playing in a room with your friends and eating snacks, but to worship through singing songs, praying, and hearing the Bible taught.