Mom, Where Are My Church Clothes? Why We’re Back In Sunday School
When we participate in the church, we are living out vows we made to God on behalf of all the church’s children – including our own- when they were baptized.
When we participate in the church, we are living out vows we made to God on behalf of all the church’s children – including our own- when they were baptized.
Rather than food leading to prayer and love, God’s love, with prayer, enables us to eat restoratively, day after day, meal after meal.
We show our children how to seek God and his truth, and how to measure secondhand information with the standards the Bible provides.
To be clear, attending church does not save us or our children; nevertheless, God calls his people to be regularly involved in the work and worship of the church.
My family and I need church the way someone suffering from hunger needs nourishing food.
Modeling prayerful weeping, watching, and working at home for our children might encourage them to follow these steps themselves.
For me, as a dietitian and follower of Christ, food is God’s love made nutrient dense.
We parents have to wrestle our own competitive streaks to the ground before we can even begin to model gospel-formed attitudes about sports to our children.
Until I realized that I was trying to be my own savior and conquer the pressures of high school by myself, I did not realize I was seeing Jesus incorrectly.