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Will your children adopt your moral values and faith?
How can you be assured?
Do you have hopes that your children will embrace a full
and vital relationship with the Lord?
Do you have nagging fears that they will reject the Lord,
or abandon your Christian Values?
You’re not alone. "Fewer than 2 out of every 10 Christian parents believe they are doing a good job of training their children morally and spiritually. In fact, on a national survey, parents rated their effectiveness lower on these two areas of performance than on any of the 15 areas they were asked to address."
Other parents are expressing their dismay at seeing their moral values ignored by their children, saying things like:
"My daughter seems to think that the world revolves around her and if she has to do something she doesn't want to do, she gets in a really bad mood. If there is something she wants to do, she thinks she should be able to do it, no matter how she has been acting. She has not been taught to be selfish, rude, and disrespectful, but that is her first tendency."
"I have a 21-year-old daughter who is dating a non-Christian. My 17-year-old acts like a 12-year-old, but it seems like he's too old for me to lecture him and take away his privileges. I also have an 12-year-old who I’m afraid is slipping away."
"My relationship with my 14-year-old son has changed so dramatically the last two years, and not in a good way. I simply do not know how to make it right. I am so often met with rolled eyes, groans, and in some cases, adamant and out-right "NO" from my kids when I've called them to do something. They are consumed with television, iPod music, hanging out with friends, facebook, and YouTube. My 17-year-old daughter went into depression when a boy broke her heart. The depression got really, really bad."
The statistics are alarming!
More than 8 out of every 10 parents are failing to transfer biblical moral values and faith to the next generation! They are missing out on the meaningful family relationships God wants them to have.
You don't have to be among them!
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Marilyn expands on 8 Challenging Ideas clarifying what true biblical morality is, how it is developed, and the relational environment needed to instill a biblical morality in our children. View the 8 Challenging Ideas. She defines commonly misunderstood biblical words and exposes false ideas that may keep you from life-changing spiritual growth. Marilyn reveals how God wants to work in your life to equip you to effectively train your children’s moral character in heart-level righteousness through relational discipleship. Throughout the book, Marilyn tells her own personal stories of how God got her attention, gave her moral clarity, and taught her how to pass it to her children, forming true Christlike character in them. At the end of each chapter, you will follow the story of another couple, Tim and Barbie Poling, who came to understand what God wanted to do in them and chose to cooperate so they could turn around the moral culture of their home. Today they are successfully transferring their moral values and faith to their children. |
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Have you been seeing the trends of teenagers
raised in Christian homes rebelling against their parents,
young people making decisions against their parents' wishes
and advice, and young Christian marriages ending in divorce?
Will the religious upbringing you’re providing for
your children be enough to stem the tide?
Your children may like going to
church, but do they love the Lord?
Christian friends seem like a good thing, but are
your children developing meaningful
relationships within the family?
What is the moral culture of your home?
Morality is about the habitual manners or conduct and personal behavior of people in relation to one another as social beings whose actions have a bearing on each other’s rights and happiness, and with reference to right and wrong. And so, morality is about our customary actions in how we treat other people, whether those actions are good or bad. If morality is the quality of how people relate with each other, then immorality can be detected in all of our relational patterns of behavior like these situations below.
"I have 3 teenage boys and I am pretty sure they are smoking. I have mentioned this to them in the past but they have denied it. I have not seen them doing it, but can usually smell it and they act suspicious, especially the 14-year-old. Should I threaten the older two with no driving privileges? I have always had a good relationship with my boys, they were very good when they were little, but now they are pulling away from me as teenagers..."
"Our 10-year-old son has pride and anger issues and a victim mentality. My son will do something that my husband corrects him for much less graciously than he could. My son does not accept the correction graciously. Anger escalates on both sides and it is never a pretty scene. Each time this happens I feel helpless, because I cannot take sides. In my heart I feel that my son is being driven away. I know my husband is provoking him and it tears me up inside. If I try to talk to my husband about it later, it usually doesn't turn out well. My husband believes that his anger is justified, because my son should not treat him disrespectfully. Anger and punishment is not improving his attitude..."
"I want my kids to be motivated to do other things than going to the pool, hanging out with friends, chatting on Facebook with their Christian friends and watching movies. If I say no to these things it seems like they are still focused on them. I would love to see them spend more time developing the gifts God has placed in them or using those gifts to touch someone's life,but I can’t seem to motivate them. I’m getting so tired of their complaints: 'I would like public school better than being homeschooled.' 'How long are you going to read to us for? Are you done yet?!' I have punished them for complaining but I don't know if this is getting to the root of this issue..."
Does God’s word tell us how to disciple our children?
Are you allowing immorality to reign unchecked
in your home? In yourself?
Empowering the Transfer of Moral Values and Faith promises to be eye-opening and life-changing for all serious Christians, parents, young couples, and single adults whose desire it is to embody the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His influence in your heart and life will transform you into an effective influence in the hearts and lives of others, beginning with your own precious children. This book informs parents of actions to take now to become better parents. Equipped with new understanding of how God works in you, He will enable you to bring His moral standard into your home, and empower you to transfer moral values and faith to your children.
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Have you ever thought that if you are generally nice,
refrain from causing conflict in the church, and mind your own
business you are being loving? This idea of love is far from biblical.
What exactly does a loving person do?
What does God’s kind of love look like, and how is it expressed
in family relationships?
1 John 4:7-8 says that love comes from God, and everyone who loves is born of God, but those who do not love don’t even know God. You don't have to be among the many Christians who are deceived, believing they know God, yet continue in their unloving and self-serving relational behaviors, showing that in reality they don't yet know Him. Meditation and study on Love’s Actions will help you see your habitual unloving ways more clearly so you can begin to reconcile your relational conduct to God’s ways, leading you toward a deeper walk with Him that will in turn form deeper bonds with your family.
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