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Parents! Sunday school teacher is not the spiritual leader of your child; you are! Let's get Biblical about Sunday school! Let's get it right once and for all!
Parents! Sunday school teacher is not the spiritual leader of your child; you are! Let's get Biblical about Sunday school! Let's get it right once and for all!
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Parents! Sunday school teacher is not the spiritual leader of your child; you are! Let's get Biblical about Sunday school! Let's get it right once and for all!
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4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deut 6:4-9 (NASB) What does “Schema” Deut. 6:4-9 teach us?
LORD is our God
LORD is One Implications
It is important from early childhood to drill
into our children that LORD is our God and that He is One. There is One God and besides Him there are no others. Cont.
Love the LORD with all heart, soul and might
Worship takes the whole of a man, it involves the heart, soul and might. Talk& Walk
Parents are the primary religious educators
of their children, worship starts at home. What about Sunday School?
Sunday school was invented in England
during 18th century for orphans and homeless children who had nobody to take care of them! ”Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Prov 22:6 (NASB)
Christian education starts at an early age, it
starts at home and continues at home Really???
It is not a responsibility of the Sunday school
teacher to teach my kids. Children should come to Sunday school already being taught by their parents. “Mrs. Jones” is not the primary educator of your children, YOU ARE! “How can I do it?
It requires discipline and time management.
Things to consider…
In Ephesians 5:22-32 we have a key
passage that deals between a husband and a wife. The reason for bringing it up here has to do with a fact that when there is a proper “subjections” of a husband and a wife to each other, there is a proper order and peace in a family Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as
to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Eph 5:22-24 (NASB) Ephesians 5:25-27
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless Eph 5:25-27 (NASB) Ephesians 5:28-32
28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own
bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. Eph 5:28-33 (NASB) Main Point
Husbands ought to love their wives as
themselves, and ought to give their lives up for their wives. Wives in the same way ought to respect their husbands. Marriage is an illustration that God gave us of the relationship Jesus Christ has with the church. What does it have to do with my children?
Parents are the examples to their kids.
Children will mimic their parents. If parent model a Christ like behavior that will influence the kids as well. If parents model an ungodly behavior that will be what the children will mimic. Outcome
A healthy/ God centered marriage will not
only glorify God but will give your children a firm foundation of what marriage is and what a true family looks like. Many Christian families look no different than the ones of the world, thus we as Christians must take a stand. As to salvation…
Theology (Theos=God, Logy= study of)
Theology is a study of God, or a discourse on God. We must start with a solid Biblical emphasis of what salvation is. Jonah 2:9
…Salvation is from the LORD.
It is God almighty who saves and brings about salvation. It is the LORD who saves and no other, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Ezekiel 37
This is a chapter which portrays a valley filled
with bones. Suddenly God starts to make men out of the bones, he puts skin and muscles on them. Finally God sends the “breath” also could be translated as Spirit and an “exceedingly great army stood” John 14:6
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no
one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6 (NASB) What’s the big deal?
The big deal is that God saves, we are just
privileged messengers who are given the honor to proclaim the unfathomable riches that are in Christ. A Christian home…
Just because your children are born in a
Christian home it does not guarantee that they will be saved. WHAT!!!!! Yes this is true… Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me. Psalms 51:5 (NASB) Sinfulness of Sin
We are born in sin, thus we are not sinners
because we sin but we sin because we are sinners. A change?
In order to change your children, and
influence them “positively” we must address the “core” which is sin Romans 10:9-10
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as
Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:9-10 (NASB) Exegesis that has gone wrong…
We have taken the passage from Romans
10:9-10 and turned it into a “magical formula” What’s the meaning…
It means exactly what it says..
Yet the background of it is totally different from ours During first century to confess someone else as lord instead of Cesar would be considered of putting a death sentence on yourself Cost
There was a cost that early Christians had to
pay in order to follow Christ What can we do as parents…
DO NOT HURRY! WAIT ON THE LORD! “I’ll make him/her a Christian”
As parents, it is not your responsibility to
bring about “salvation” upon your kids but to model a Christ like life, talk about Jesus (gospel) and most important live it out in front of your kids. Actions speak louder than words
Children have a tendency to observe rather
than listen. As Craig Jutila says that children remember what we do, not what we say. What’s the appropriate time for a child to understand the Gospel message?
Obviously little babies, infants cannot
understand nor speak so they are out of the question. (It does not mean that they are doomed to hell, Scripture does not clearly address this issue so we must trust that they are in the hands of a righteous God who did not spare His own son but gave Him over for our sins. Is there an appropriate age?
Wait for your children to ask you questions.
The Holy Spirit will convict them of sin, be ready and listen to them. Baptism
Baptism does not save, it is a public
profession of a Christian who already has faith, and baptism is a result of that faith that the Christian already possessed before baptism. Do not dip them if they don’t initiate!
Wait for your children until they ask you if
they can be baptized, do not dunk them just because you want to make sure they are “safe”. Baptism will not save them, only Jesus. This is hard to accept…
This is what the Bible teaches, and if we
want to be obedient we must follow it and not our own pathetic strategies and plans that we “have” for our children. Waiting on God is not easy which brings me to my second point…PRAYER Pray for your kids
Make it a habit to pray regularly with your
spouse for your children, pleading with God for their salvation. So I’m the teacher?
Yes, you are the primary teacher of your
children, it is a parents responsibility not Mrs. Jones’. To the fathers
It is your responsibility to educate your boys
on sexuality not the playboy magazine or Bobby who happened to hear stories from his older cousin Slash. When your son reaches 12 or even earlier now be ready to have a “sex-talk” with your sons based on the Biblical principles. To the mother’s
It is your responsibility to have a sex-talk with
your daughters, the husband should be present for this one. Father is the head of the house and should add helpful and useful content to the conversation Proverbs
Hear, my son, your father's instruction
And do not forsake your mother's teaching; 9 Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck. Prov 1:8-9 (NASB) Read?
Read the Word to your kids and encourage
them to read it as well, there are many children Bible’s these days, get them a translation that suites them True Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov 1:7 (NASB) IMPORTANT
For Children time=love
You need to make time for them! What’s next
We must reconsidered what grandma Jenny
taught us, and we must stand firmly on god’s word and bring it into practice in our daily lives especially at home. Principles…
1) Walk…we must model Christ like lives for
our children 2) Talk… after we walk we must talk and proclaim God’s message to our children as Deuteronomy 6:4-9 teaches. 3) Pray…again prayer is a necessary plea for the salvation of your children, pray often, pray without ceasing. Works Cited