What is the duty of Christian parents regarding their children? To bring them to Christ so that they might receive his blessings! So how do you do that? How do you place your children in the arms of Christ? By bringing them under the ordinances that he has ordained to be his means of blessing, his means of grace. Prayer, the sacraments, and the word read and preached. Obviously they cannot yet come to the Lord's table, but they should be brought for baptism, and then they should be raised bathed in prayer and surrounded by the reading and preaching of the word both in the church and at home. Many people make the mistake of only doing one or the other but both are absolutely necessary. They cannot come under the preaching of the word or be baptized at home, but at the same time, the church cannot assume the responsibility of fathers to bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. The Bible assumes that children will be brought to Christ in both settings.
Well so much for the first part – the place of children in the kingdom, what of the second – the exhortation of Jesus to you to have receive the kingdom of God as a little child? It means that even as adults you should have a childlike, but not a childish, faith.
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Pastor Andrew Webb
A Childlike Faith The Gospel According to Luke Providence ARP Church
I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
