We bring
our children to church because we as a family choose to serve God and because
it has a decisive impact on the rest of their lives!
Joshua
24: 14 – 18: "Now
fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness…. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to
you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods
your forefathers served… or the gods… in whose land you are living.
But
as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
Then
the people answered, "….. We too will serve the LORD, because he is our
God."
Children
copy what takes place around them. This is how they learn to speak, to smile,
to walk, to believe in God and they will display the behaviours and values that
are characteristic of the family they have been born into.
If we,
like Joshua, choose to serve the Lord, we practically make it possible for our
children to learn to love God.
Parents
choose, through their example, faith and participation in Church, to make it
possible for their children to love Jesus, or to sideline Christ!
Humans
are the most complicated of all creatures but have the most poorly developed
reflexes at birth, and has very little instinctive behaviour. Human
behaviour is learned behaviour. Just about everything we know, everything
we do, and everything we believe is the result of the processes of learning.
The
first learning behaviours that children exhibit are the results of imitation
–Learning takes place on the basis of what the young children hear and
especially what he or she sees and experiences at home.
Christian
parenting is therefore of critical importance.
From an early age they imitate us.
Parents are in a child’s life the most important influence.
That is
why God in his great wisdom ordained parenting in order for our children, whom
he loves, to also love him back.
When we
presented our children for baptism we vowed to work in partnership with the
church that we and our children may effectively know how to choose life! And
how to choose Christ!
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