PARENTING CHILDREN WITH A
CHRIST-CENTERED FOCUS
Mark 10:13-16
I. INTRODUCTION:
A. Our current government’s mindset regarding parenting
children:
1. Contrasting mindsets: (Eph. 6:4)
2. The consequences:
B. Parenting children with the burden of our sinful nature:
1. Your blessing and who the kingdom belongs to: (See
Isa. 8:18; Ps. 127:4-5; Mk. 10:13-16)
2. Parenting in “your own eyes”: (Deut. 12:8; Jud.
21:25)
3. The disastrous “cause and effect” spiral: (Ex. 20:5;
Ezek. 18:20)
II. WHAT TARNISHES OUR PERSPECTIVE OF PARENTING
CHILDREN:
A. Our concept of conception:
1. The epidemic of adolescence and the self-involved
generation:
2. Seeing the family as optional: (“Why bother having a
child when I could just get a dog?”)
3. Viewing children as a blessing, not an intrusion:
(Ps. 127:3-5)
B. Our concept of the unborn:
1. 62 million children slaughtered in the womb (how we
got here):
- No child is an accident or a mistake: (Ps. 139)
C. Our concept of the family: - Two great terror attacks on the family:
- The permanence of marriage: (Gen. 2:24)
D. Our concept of women: (Tit. 2:3-5; I Tim. 2:15) - Feminism, rejecting a woman’s God-intended
function in the family:
(Gen. 1:28; 3:16; I Tim. 2:11-12) - Saved from the stigma of the fall, with the next
generation: (I Tim. 2:15)
E. Our concept of men: (I Tim. 3:2-7)
1. Masculinity in the crosshairs:
2. Christlikeness, experiencing contentment as a real
man: (Eph. 4:13; I Tim. 6:6-10)
III. PRINCIPLES TO PERSONALLY APPLY:
(Together becoming “people of the Word” in principle AND in practice)
A. Now is the time to treasure and prioritize as adults, our
ministry to children both here at Grace and in our
community.
B. My eternal legacy begins with having children and
taking the time to teach and model to them, the priority
of placing Christ, above all other worldly interests and
possessions. (your children grow up to provide the shade
for the next generation.)
C. The basis for building this legacy with the next
generation, is obediently embracing God’s Word at the
expense of my culture.
Sinners Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, I was made by you and I was made for you, but
I have been living for myself. I am sorry for that self-rule you call sin.
I believe that Jesus Christ being my creator God, died, was buried,
and rose again to pay the insurmountable debt that my sin has
created since birth. So right now, I am turning from a life of going my
own way, to by faith, place my trust in Jesus Christ, to pay the debt of
all my sin, and to get me to heaven, when I breath my last breath.
Lord Jesus, from today on, I am yours. Thanks for saving me, this
very moment, in Jesus name, Amen.
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