Basic Building Blocks for Raising Kids Who Are Spiritual Warriors

This is also a plea for Christian parents to lock arms. Yes, lock arms. Encourage one another to maintain a culture that collectively requires good things of our children. When kids can look to other families who are giving in and giving up on these central good-for-them requirements, it makes it harder on all parents—and ultimately hurts our kids, this generation and the church.

Trust in God who says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6). Maybe we are losing so many of our kids when they’re in college because we didn’t join together as parents to create a culture of going to church and reading God’s Word. Let’s be diligent to hold the line together now while they are still in our homes.  

But when we do—when we encourage our kids to worship God through time in His Word and time in church with other believers, the blessing has great impact.

Not only that, when hard times come for our kids (and those times will come), they will be able to stand strong. Two of the young people quoted above were diagnosed with cancer just this year. Yes, cancer. And they are still praising Jesus in their storms.

Isn’t this what we want for our kids, the church and our world?

Allow me to let you in on a little secret about all of those amazing young adults quoted above—none of them has perfect parents. Just ordinary parents who trust God more than they trust themselves and chose to believe God would use His Word and His church for their kids. And He has. And He is.

So friends, keep your kids in the Word and in church and encourage other parents to do the same. They will have a much better chance to grow into adults who love and praise the Lord and love others. They will have a much better chance to find peace, hope and joy to carry them all the days of their lives.

What better thing can you give them? What better thing can you do for our world and our Savior? Lock arms, Christian parents! {eoa}

© 2001-2016 Revive Our Hearts God has opened doors for Kim Jaggers to minister to women as a speaker, writer and ministry leader. Kim loves Jesus with all her heart and has a passion for others to develop a real, run-to-Him relationship and to crave God’s Word as she does … “more than chocolate.”

Kim authors an internationally received e-devotional entitled “Single Moment.” She has served as a guest blogger for Lifeway’s Women Reaching Women. Kim’s compelling story has also been featured on Revive our Hearts. She lives and laughs often with her family near Knoxville, Tennessee.