If you want your child to learn the piano you send her to a piano teacher. If you want your child to learn sports you send him to a coach. So it only makes sense that if you want your child to learn the faith you send them to church. Wrong!
“We recognize far too seldom that religious and confirmation instruction and the Sunday school can in no way give what previous generations knew from home through Bible reading and what was learned from pious parents.”
“Do we really believe that the members of our congregations take so much with them from a few hurried hours of confirmation instruction… that they are able to live on it throughout their whole lives as people who daily return to their baptism?”
Hermann Sasse, “Word and Sacrament Preaching and the Lord’s Supper: Letters to Lutheran Pastors, No. 42 July 1956,” We Confess Anthology, The Sacraments, 22-23.One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to read, memorize, and cherish the catechism with them. Take joy in these eternal truths of Scripture so that they will be on the hearts of your children. Not so your kids will do well in life or develop proper morals, but so that they might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing they may have life in His name.
“You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Deuteronomy 6:7
The son of a fellow brother in the ministry.
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