What are the most important titles you bear? Are the strategies, projects, plans and production the most important responsibilities in your life? It is hard to neglect family for these things but it happens all the time. If the most important title and impact rest at home then isn’t our walk with Christ in our homes the beginning of the most important responsibilities we have as men?
Baucham states, “It is my relationship with my wife and children that gives my walk with Christ legitimacy.” How do Matthew 22:34-40 & 1John 2:9-11 fit into your walk with your family?
Is there any way in which you could see yourself “teaching the Word to your family or leading them in family worship, disciplines, instructing and encouraging” them?
It bears out that most Christian families are operating in the “full-screen” rather than “wide-screen” mode. After reading these few pages would you concede that there is a great deal that we either ignorantly or inadvertently let slide when it comes to leading our families? Are we given to the cultural “perception” and “failing to question the status quo?”
I was surprised by my lack of realization that the party kids of youth were the ultimate partiers in college. Allowing kids to experiment as teens does not get it out of their system it only wets their appetite for more.
I cannot prevent their bad choices later in life but I can give them the right foundation to be able to make the best choices possible when the time comes. Many have fallen prey to the dangerous behavior of “trading in the Biblical standard for a cultural norm.”
What was the approach your parents took with you? What approach are you taking with your kids? Does God have a plan for the way you bring up his images that have been given to you to raise in partnership with Him?
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