This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Talk to your Kids about what they learn at Church.
Deuteronomy 6:7 states “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.” Here we see it is important to teach God’s Word to our kids. Yet we should also utilize what the church teach our kids to further teach them diligently. One way we do that is to talk to your kids about what they learn at church.
Ask them: What did you guys learn? Ask them: What did you get out of the study today at church? Ask them: How does what the church teach you today change your life?
Why?
Ask them “What did you guys learn?” to further teach what God says. Ask them “What did you guys learn?” to correct any misunderstanding, if any, that the kids have.
Ask them “What did you get out of the study today at church?” to show them that what they learn from Church is important. Ask them “How does what the church teach you today change your life?” to teach them to think about application from hearing God’s Word being taught.
Further questions you can ask for conversations include: What passage did the church go over today? This reinforce that truths comes from God’s Word, the Bible. Ask them “What did you learn that you can share with your friends?” This makes them think about evangelism and being a light.
Sometimes its good to even ask if they have any questions from Church; let them do the work of asking questions sometime!
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This is the main thing about the main thing for parents. Thanks for making this happen.
Love this whole series.
My children are grown up now and, in their words they ‘don’t do religion’. It makes me feel sad, that I’ve failed them … but I pray about it.
I just prayed for them having read this comment. May God show His grace concerning them sister.
Thank you. I was very young when I had them, first husband died when I was 24 (he was 23) and I was a real mess, so they didn’t have a stable upbringing. However, God’s been good to us. I pray and hope.
Thank you for your prayers.
Thanks for this! Yes, parents should reinforce/complement the work of the Sunday School teacher. Routinely questioning children about the lesson will condition/prepare them to engage more with the material in the classroom and afterwards. So important.
Thanks and you’re right about constant engagement. I’m praying for your right knee today and yes I’m driving back to church to speak! Pray for my strength and the drive, sleepy!
Thanks for your prayers, brothers! I used to laugh about how older folks would sit around and commiserate about their ailments, but I’m starting to wear that hat! I’m getting to this late so I hope everything worked out! I know you’re super busy today and pray the Lord sustains you.
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A shout out for ‘homeschooling’. There are lessons from God in everything we do and learn.
I’m afraid my parents never did this. They sent us to Sunday school every week, but didn’t often go to church themselves–I think because my father had a very hard job at the Ford plant, always a zillion jobs to do at home, and just could fit church in. Later in life they attended church regularly, but not until all their kids were grown.
I think they reckoned Sunday school to be, well, automatic: child goes there, child learns Christianity. Sort of like public school: and the parent has to do is send the kids out the door.
Now we know it doesn’t work that way.
Looking back, it would’ve been great if the adults in my family took a deeper and more active interest in our religious education.
But at least no one was fighting over it.
Amen!
Reblogged this on a simple man of God and commented:
I have the philosophy that we are all children (i.e. children of God), so Jim’s advice today is good for little kids all the way to older adults.
Ask each other about what they learned from church, Bible study, and other small groups. Even their daily reading!
Daniel
Amen.
And amen! Sorry had a long weekend preaching at a retreat then regular Church service and another church Sunday night so wasn’t around your blog a lot this weekend! Hope I didn’t miss anything, hope to catch up with your blog eventually. How was your weekend?
Very good, Thank you. May your week be Blessed.:)
Amen. My parents did this and now i do it because that was what i saw my parents do and also because i knew how that made me listen in class. Today my kids (8 and 7 yrs old) learnt about The breastplate of righteousness. They said it is what covers our hearts so the devil cannot snatch it away :).
Wow your parents’ testimony as well as your own example is encouraging to hear and I hope that other parents reading this post will also read your comment and be encouraged to do the same! If I remember correctly both your kids are daughters right?
Both of them are girls. I have a boy who just turned 3😊
“What did you learn in Sunday School today?”
“God’s name is Howard.”
“Oh, how do you know that?”
“The teacher said to pray, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, Howard be thy name.'”
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When I was a wee one every night I prayed, “… garden keep me through the night, …” I finally asked my mom how a garden could keep me, and learned the real words were, “… guard and keep me through the night, …”
The first story you shared is adorable
Questioning what is taught is good so they can decipher things when they are older… and so they can find answers on their own instead of just depending on a religious figure…
Yet another sxcellet post in the series. Thank you for your dedication.
It is good to talk to the children about the messages at church. Sometimes it is surpring to learn what they understand from it. Not just the children, but the young adults also. Sometimes they sleep in church. I find that these day the the young children are far more receptive to the messages than the teens and young adults. What do you think?