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Studies by Barna, for what they are worth, show that most children growing up in evangelical churches will abandon the faith. According to the studies, even though many of those who drop out of church are actively involved in church during their teen years, by their early twenties most have stopped participating actively in [...]
Continue Reading →If we want our children to love and embrace the ‘ facts’ of the gospel, we need to step back and think about how children gain their knowledge.
Modernism likes to see itself as interested in only ‘objective facts’. For modernism, the keys to understanding the world are a good microscope, telescope or any other [...]
Continue Reading →The first and greatest commandment is followed by a commandment to teach children to do the same (Deut 6:4-9). Our goal as Christian parents should be nothing less than to help shape our children so that they will, by grace, become ardent lovers of God. We have said this happens not merely by telling our [...]
Continue Reading →How a child imagines ultimate reality is powerfully shaped by his parents. How his parents live out their faith provides the child with an ongoing example of what a relationship with God is like, what loving God looks like, and why it ought to be chosen over secularism, materialism, or practical atheism.
However, the family [...]
Continue Reading →A child’s view of ultimate reality does not come through one beautific vision, but through thousands of observations, experiences and lessons. As he grows, his first teachers of the nature of things will be his parents. Their faith teaches him what faith is, if it is desirable, and where he ought to place his. This [...]
Continue Reading →Parents are responsible for helping to form and shape a child’s overall mental map of reality. If they neglect to do so, there is no telling how the child will interpret the ‘facts’ of the gospel. Those facts are not autonomous, and the miracle of regeneration is not usually accomplished without the Spirit’s use of [...]
Continue Reading →Some Christians have taken in a kind of Gnosticism or neo-Platonism without knowing it. Both of those doctrines taught that the body is evil (or at least inferior and irrelevant) and the spirit is good. Consequently, under the spell of these ideas, physical matters such as eating, drinking, smelling, tasting, and touching are seen as [...]
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