RAISING YOUNG CHAMPIONS
Scripture: ECCLESIASTES 8:11, EPHESIANS 6:4, HEBREWS 12:6, JAMES 1:20, PROVERBS 6:6-7, PROVERBS 13:24, PROVERBS 19:18, PROVERBS 23:13-14, REVELATION 3:19
Raising Young Champions
Dr. Adrian Rogers
Proverbs 22:6
I want you to take God's word, please, and open to Proverbs chapter 22, to one of the most familiar verses in all of the Bible, as we continue our series, "A Future for your Family." Now, if you can't raise your kids right, your family's not going to have much of a future, so we want to speak to you today about raising young champions. Your child should be a champion - not necessarily a champion in the spelling bee, not necessarily a champion in the halls of academia, not necessarily a champion on the football team, but a champion for Jesus Christ. This book is the breakfast of champions, folks, and I want us to look in here and see what God has to say about raising a child.
Proverbs 22:6 is a familiar verse, "Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he should not depart from it." What does it mean to train up a child? May I tell you, my friend, there is a difference in teaching a child and in training a child. So many of us have taught our children and then see them turn and go wrong. Our problem is neglect and indifference - we think if we simply teach, that's all that needs to be done. But then we find out that the child becomes self-willed, and self-centered and goes his own way. Let me tell you what the dictionary says to train means. It says, to prepare for a contest; to instruct by exercise; to drill; to form to a proper shape; to discipline for use. Now, nobody ever learned to play football by simply reading a book on football or simply sitting in a classroom with a blackboard up there and a coach drawing things on the blackboard - they used to call that skull practice when I was playing football. But you really learn to play football under the tutelage and the guidance of a coach out on the field.
Let me give you four things, parents, and I hope you'll take notes because there's an awful lot in this message, but there ar ...
Dr. Adrian Rogers
Proverbs 22:6
I want you to take God's word, please, and open to Proverbs chapter 22, to one of the most familiar verses in all of the Bible, as we continue our series, "A Future for your Family." Now, if you can't raise your kids right, your family's not going to have much of a future, so we want to speak to you today about raising young champions. Your child should be a champion - not necessarily a champion in the spelling bee, not necessarily a champion in the halls of academia, not necessarily a champion on the football team, but a champion for Jesus Christ. This book is the breakfast of champions, folks, and I want us to look in here and see what God has to say about raising a child.
Proverbs 22:6 is a familiar verse, "Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he should not depart from it." What does it mean to train up a child? May I tell you, my friend, there is a difference in teaching a child and in training a child. So many of us have taught our children and then see them turn and go wrong. Our problem is neglect and indifference - we think if we simply teach, that's all that needs to be done. But then we find out that the child becomes self-willed, and self-centered and goes his own way. Let me tell you what the dictionary says to train means. It says, to prepare for a contest; to instruct by exercise; to drill; to form to a proper shape; to discipline for use. Now, nobody ever learned to play football by simply reading a book on football or simply sitting in a classroom with a blackboard up there and a coach drawing things on the blackboard - they used to call that skull practice when I was playing football. But you really learn to play football under the tutelage and the guidance of a coach out on the field.
Let me give you four things, parents, and I hope you'll take notes because there's an awful lot in this message, but there ar ...
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