LIE #5: ''I SHOULD NOT MAKE MY CHILDREN ATTEND CHURCH.'' (5 OF 10)
Scripture: Deuteronomy 31:9-13, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Ephesians 4:4-7
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Lie #5: ''I Should Not Make My Children Attend Church.'' (5 of 10)
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Deuteronomy 31:9-13; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:4-7
It was certainly an attention-grabbing headline: ''Some Atheist Scientists Are Taking Their Children to Church - But Why?'' The article was reporting on recent research revealing that ''17 percent of non-believers who have children said that they attended religious services more than one time in the past year.'' Their reasons for taking their children to church were interesting:
- Some want their children to be informed about the religions of the world.
- Some do so because of the religious convictions of their spouses.
- Some appreciate the sense of community they feel at church.
Regardless of their motivation, it is a tragic but seemingly certain fact that there are some professed atheists who have more conviction about the need for their children to be in church than some professed Christians do.
The failure of many Christian parents to bring their children to church is not a new problem. Consider, for instance, the following 1548 statement made by the magistrates of Bern, Switzerland, in their general mandates of reform. ''We are well aware of not only the transgression but also the contempt almost everywhere in our lands for preaching, catechisms, and instruction of the youth...''
Ten years later, in 1558, the ministers of Bern and professors of Lausanne would say the following:
''How many children are there in the villages as well as the cities who neither go to nor are sent to catechism?...When all is said and done, if things remain the way they are, what hope can we have for young people except that, without good order established according to the word of God, most of them will become epicureans and atheists, as we have seen all too often?''
Likewise, in January of 1884, the Rev. William Aikman, D.D. made this disheartening observation.
''Now chur ...
Series: Lies Parents Tell Themselves
Wyman Richardson
Deuteronomy 31:9-13; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:4-7
It was certainly an attention-grabbing headline: ''Some Atheist Scientists Are Taking Their Children to Church - But Why?'' The article was reporting on recent research revealing that ''17 percent of non-believers who have children said that they attended religious services more than one time in the past year.'' Their reasons for taking their children to church were interesting:
- Some want their children to be informed about the religions of the world.
- Some do so because of the religious convictions of their spouses.
- Some appreciate the sense of community they feel at church.
Regardless of their motivation, it is a tragic but seemingly certain fact that there are some professed atheists who have more conviction about the need for their children to be in church than some professed Christians do.
The failure of many Christian parents to bring their children to church is not a new problem. Consider, for instance, the following 1548 statement made by the magistrates of Bern, Switzerland, in their general mandates of reform. ''We are well aware of not only the transgression but also the contempt almost everywhere in our lands for preaching, catechisms, and instruction of the youth...''
Ten years later, in 1558, the ministers of Bern and professors of Lausanne would say the following:
''How many children are there in the villages as well as the cities who neither go to nor are sent to catechism?...When all is said and done, if things remain the way they are, what hope can we have for young people except that, without good order established according to the word of God, most of them will become epicureans and atheists, as we have seen all too often?''
Likewise, in January of 1884, the Rev. William Aikman, D.D. made this disheartening observation.
''Now chur ...
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