Reaching Your World Through Your Children
Do you teach your kids that they can be used by God to reach the world with the love of Jesus Christ?
Parenting is hard work. My wife Wendy and I are constantly on our knees begging God for wisdom and guidance as we raise our three children. We feel compelled and convicted to teach our kids the very same truths that changed our lives - the truth that God has a heart for the world and for the lost.
2 Corinthians 5 makes it very clear that we are called to be Christ’s ambassadors, that Christ makes his appeal through us. What a privilege! What an honor!
As parents, it’s pretty easy to raise selfish individuals. Our generation places a heavy emphasis on the child - their accomplishments, their needs, and their schedules.
This is great. But, we need to teach our children clearly and constantly that God wants to reach others through them. All their education, accomplishments, and privileges should translate into the same burden that God has for the people of this world.
If you have children, ask the Lord to impress on their hearts a desire to reach their world. And you, as a parent, model for them what it means to actively share your faith.
They’ll notice your example and who knows how God will use them to radically influence the people in their lives.
“If you have children, ask the Lord to impress on their hearts a desire to reach their world.”
2 Corinthians 5:20
“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.”