THE GOAL OF CHRISTIAN PARENTING IS TO BE FAITHFUL TO GOD’S WORD BY HIS GRACE AND FOR HIS GLORY.
EPHESIANS 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
“In the Instruction of the Lord”
Means to: admonish, warn or instruct
NOUTHESIA
3 ACTIONS ARE INVOLVED
A. DISCERNING THINKING AND BEHAVIOR GOD WANTS TO CHANGE
B. USING GOD’S WORD, BY VERBAL MEANS TO CHANGE THAT THINKING AND BEHAVIOR
C. DOING THIS FOR THE PERSON’S BENEFIT AND THE GLORY OF GOD
THE GOALS ARE:
1. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
2. EQUIPPING THE CHILD TO THINK AND ACT BIBLICALLY ON HIS OWN
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4Hear, 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.
10 SCRIPTURAL CONVICTIONS TO BE TAUGHT TO YOUR CHILDREN
• THE BIBLE IS THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD AND IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY IN MY LIFE
• MY PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO SEEK GOD WITH ALL
• MY BODY IS THE LIVING TEMPLE OF GOD AND MUST NOT BE DEFILED BY THE LUST OF THE FLESH
• MY CHURCH MUST TEACH THE FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS OF SCRIPTURE AND REINFORCE MY BASIC CONVICTIONS
• MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BELONG TO GOD, AND IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH THEM SCRIPTURAL PRINCIPLES.
• MY ACTIVITIES MUST NEVER WEAKEN THE SCRIPTURAL CONVICTIONS OF ANOTHER CHRISTIAN
• MY MARRIAGE IS A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO GOD AND TO MY MARRIAGE PARTNER
• MY MONEY IS A TRUST FROM GOD AND MUST BE EARNED AND MANAGED
• MY WORDS MUST BE IN HARMONY WITH SCRIPTURE, ESPECIALLY WHEN REPROVING AND RESTORING A CHRISTIAN BROTHER
• MY AFFECTIONS MUST BE SET ON THINGS ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH
