Home First
Discipleship Starts in the Home Although I firmly believe in the need for the local church and the value of Christian education, the family is God's original design for discipleship. Before the church was ever formed, the family was set in as the place for spiritual development and training. Deuteronomy 6:7 establishes the family as the place for children to be educated in Biblical principles. "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise" (Deuteronomy 6:7, ESV). As parents it is our responsibility to put our home first and raise up our children to know God through Modeling, Moments, and Memories . Modeling Our first job as a parent or educator is to be someone that our children can follow after. As Paul said to the church in Corinth, "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ" (1 Corinthians 11:1, ESV). We are to be people our children c...
