Influencing Our Children

Everett Hardin
11/06/16 - Marriage and Family

Influence and education start sooner than most parents imagine. It begins long before children are responsible for the things they do.

The most powerful school in the entire world is the home and the influence of godly parents. The most permanent impressions are learned from mothers and fathers. Parents, it is very difficult to convince your child:

1. That the church is the most important thing in all the world if you often miss services.
2. That the church is the greatest institution in the world if you permit them to neglect services to go elsewhere.
3. That the church is to be held in higher esteem than anything if you insist they get their school lessons, but permit them to miss Bible study.
4. That they ought to respect the church if you continually criticize the leadership, the preacher, and other members.