Today's Christian Education Commentary
When was the last time you wrote down some of your parenting goals?Raising kids with Christ-centered hearts is the greatest challenge Christian parents will ever face. Not only that, but it is not a challenge that is confronted and won in a day, week, or even a year. Rather, it takes many, many years of diligence, consistency, and prayer on the part of parents, and even then, success is not guaranteed.
This is why writing down your parenting goals or a vision for your family is so important. As the years pass and individual challenges come and go, it is important that we keep our eyes fixed on our ultimate goal.
Choosing a Christian education is a great way to start approaching the job of parenting with new direction, purpose, and a vision that includes God at the center.
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The last time my wife and I did that was probably 25 years ago! The oldest of our five daughters is now 40 (with five children of her own), and the youngest is 30 (with two of her own). Here's what we wrote down when our own daughters were all still in our home:
1. To have joyful confidence of a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
2. To please God before self or others.
3. To know God's Word and trust it completely.
4. To please others before self.
5. To do the hard thing before the fun thing.
6. To have happy marriages, or to be happily unmarried.
7. To show compassion to people in need.
8. To be educated concerning their heritage and their present context.
9. To develop skills and competencies for their own delight, and to pass on to others.
10. To show good cheer.
11. To be satisfied with simple delights.
12. To manage money well---whether a little or a lot.
There is more, of course. And we'll never pretend we hit all these well. But we haven't changed our minds much about whether these were worthy targets. We think they were. And we pray that our 15 grandchildren will be blessed to have their own moms and dads aim for these and other biblical goals.
JOEL BELZ
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