Friday, May 30
Picking up Parents' Passions
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
The world's number one ranked professional golfer, Tiger Woods, started playing golf when he was two years old because his father immersed him in the sport. Peyton Manning and Eli Manning, both professional football quarterbacks, learned their love for the game from their father, a standout NFL quarterback himself.
Many children develop a passion for their parents' passions, whether for good or ill. And the same is true when it comes to developing a worldview that encompasses the spiritual needs of the world. Too many children's world stops at the parking lot of their local church often because that's the border of their parents' world. But there are many ways to expand a child's worldview: Host foreign exchange students in your home; develop personal relationships with missionaries; travel to a foreign country or shop in an ethnically-different area of your hometown; subscribe to National Geographic magazine; read missionary biographies with your children.
If children are going to develop a heart for the world Christ came to save, knowledge of that world must begin at home.
Children are the sum of what parents contribute to their lives.
Richard Strauss
Read-Thru-the-Bible
Job 35:1 - 37:24
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