08/30/22 WHO IS MORE QUALIFIED?

08/30/22 WHO IS MORE QUALIFIED?

THIS IS REALLY WORTH TAKING TIME TO THINK ABOUT (if I do say so myself).

Don't skim over these points.
Are God's choices for you better than your own choices for you?
As a senior?
As a middle aged adult?
As a young adult?
As a teenager?
As an adolescent?
As a preadolescent?
As a child?
As a toddler?
As an infant?
Are God's choices better for your children than their own choices for themselves?

Are God's choices better for your children than your choices for them?

Legitimate studies show the following. Take heed.
The most important years of child development are from birth to three or five years of age.
The most informative years of child development are from birth to eight years of age.
The most important years of socialization are from eight to eleven years of age.
The most likely years of conversion for a person is between four and fourteen years of age (with greater likelihood between six and fourteen years of age.

I would say, according to these findings and God's revealed plan for the family, the church, the evangelizing and discipling of children and young people, parents and their children need the leadership, teaching, preaching, counsel, training, fellowship, ministry, input, influence of a Biblical pastor and church ministry. It is not a time to expose them to the worldview of a Christ-less society. Neither is it the time to let them choose what they want, as opposed to the foundation of Biblical Christianity.

Children need to be children, but they do not need to set their own carnal, temporal course for life. Neither do they need to have worldly minded, self driven parents set their course for them.

Children are the greatest gifts we have and we should do EVERYTHING in our power to provide them with the very best that God, His word, His salvation, His Spirit have to offer them.

Sadly, most of the people who will read this article have already wasted the major part of a young person's life by cutting out or limiting the most important facets afforded by God.