This was good stuff 🔥 My husband and I were raised in Christian homes but weren’t catechized and had a very weak knowledge of God and the Bible. Thankfully God kept us and over the last 4 years we’ve come to a much more robust faith and are raising our kids to know God’s truth and to see everything through a Christian worldview. We’ve come to the Presbyterian position but whether Baptist or Presby, we need to trust God’s promises regarding our children! “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 God’s election is not arbitrary and we parents need to obey God by raising our kids in the paideia of the Lord! 🙏🏻
Churches should be making 100 yr plans. Elders should have succession planning. Kids in church should have a path to guide them Christian adulthood ( Sunday school curriculum)
You treat your children as if they are believers throughout their young childhood, but there must come a moment when regeneration takes place and the gospel call is vocalized by the child (recognition of sin, repentance, faith in Christ). This will be evident by their teen years as to whether they love The Lord and display fruits of the Spirit appropriate to their age. When I mention "keeping them in the faith," I'm referring a popular research piece which says that 70% of professing teenagers will abandon that profession by the end of their college years/mid 20s. This cuts across denominational lines. In other words, parents raise kids who vocalize the gospel and are baptized either by immersion or as an infant.... but they they reject their public profession of faith to the tune of 70%.
