How to Raise Good Kids
Barnabas saw God's grace working in the lives of the people, so he exhorted them to remain faithful. We too can see God's grace at work in our children and exhort them to remain faithful.
The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and he's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing...Our encouragement should always stimulate praise for God's grace rather than for our goodness.
On the other hand, if we persist in seeking to build our children's self esteem by praising them, we make them into our own image, boys and girls who idolize the benediction, adults who are enslaved to the opinion of others....
But if our human obedience or morality isn't motivated by gratitude for God's grace, it is very dangerous. If not rooted in gratitude for God's love for us in Christ, morality is deadlier to the soul than immorality. Why? Remember that Jesus said it is those who are lost, who know they need a physician, that he came to save. (luke 19:10)
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