How Are You Training Your Children

HOW ARE YOU TRAINING YOUR CHILDREN?

There are thousands of parents who have given

their children everything except God. They have provided them with good food, fine clothes, liberal education, but left God out. They read to them funny books, Dick Tracy, and many types of fiction, but have never read to them the Bible. They have taken them often to the movies, but not one time to church. They have gotten drunk and cursed before their children, but have never prayed to the Heavenly Father. If parents would live the Christian life before their children and bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, there would not be’ so much juvenile delinquency. Solomon said, “Train up a child in the flay he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6).

One of America’s great moral problems today is

juvenile delinquency. The‘ majority of criminal offences today are being committed by teen-agers. They have no reverence for God and no respect for the authority of men. Some of our public schools have instilled their anti-Bible philosophy into the minds of the young until they think the Bible is old fashioned and out of date.

Judge Healy, of the Juvenile Court, of Detroit, said, “Eighty percent of the youngsters arraigned in my court came from homes in which there has been no religious training.”

Friends, Bibleless homes produce criminals. The

Lord will hold parents responsible for the way in which they train their children. Parents, be careful about the life you live before your children. If you are on your way to a Devil’s hell, your children are likely following in your footsteps.

The soul will never die: it must spend eternity somewhere. Where will it be? If you are not a Christian, why not become one? Then live the Christian life before your children. You can become a Christian by:

Hearing and learning of Christ, Jno. 6:44-45, Rom. 10:17;

Believing, Jno. 8:24, Heb. 11:6; Repenting, Luke 13:3,Acts 17:30-31;

Confessing, Rom. 10:9-10, Acts 8:37;

Being Baptized for the remission of sins: Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, Gal. 3:27.

Bring your children to all the services of the Church of Christ, where the pure word of God is taught and respected as God’s power to save, Rom. 1:16.

nave no reverence for God, neither have they any re-

-John L. Reynolds. 1954