sunday school begins at home, for parents

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Sunday School Begins At Home:Helpful tips on childrens salvation, baptism age

accountability, and sexuality

By: Michael Gomulka


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4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart andwith all your soul and with all your might. 6 "These words,which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.7 "You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talkof them when you sit in your house and when you walk by theway and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 "You shall

bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontalson your forehead. 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts ofyour house and on your gates.Deut 6:4-9 (NASB)


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What does Schema Deut. 6:4-9 teach

us?

LORD is our God

LORD is One


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Implications

It is important from early childhood to drill

into our children that LORD is our God andthat He is One.

There is One God and besides Him there areno others.


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Cont.

Love the LORD with all heart, soul and might

Worship takes the whole of a man, it involvesthe heart, soul and might.


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Talk& Walk

Parents are the primary religious educators

of their children, worship starts at home.


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What about Sunday School?

Sunday school was invented in England

during 18th

century for orphans andhomeless children who had nobody to takecare of them!


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Train up a child in the way he should go,Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Prov 22:6

(NASB)

Christian education starts at an early age, it

starts at home and continues at home


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Really???

It is not a responsibility of the Sunday school

teacher to teach my kids. Children shouldcome to Sunday school already being taughtby their parents.

Mrs. Jones is not the primary educator of

your children, YOU ARE!


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How can I do it?

It requires discipline and time management.


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Things to consider

In Ephesians 5:22-32 we have a key

passage that deals between a husband anda wife. The reason for bringing it up here hasto do with a fact that when there is a propersubjections of a husband and a wife to

each other, there is a proper order andpeace in a family


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Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, be subjectto your own husbands, as

to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the headof the wife, as Christ also is the head of thechurch, He Himself beingthe Savior of thebody. 24 But as the church is subject to

Christ, so also the wives ought to beto theirhusbands in everything. Eph 5:22-24 (NASB)


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Ephesians 5:25-27

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christalso loved the church and gave Himself upfor her, 26 so that He might sanctify her,having cleansed her by the washing of waterwith the word, 27 that He might present toHimself the church in all her glory, having no

spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that shewould be holy and blameless Eph 5:25-27(NASB)


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Ephesians 5:28-32

28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their ownbodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no oneever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just asChrist also doesthe church, 30 because we are members ofHis body. 31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HISFATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HISWIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. 32 Thismystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and

the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also isto love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to itthat she respects her husband.

Eph 5:28-33 (NASB)


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Main Point

Husbands ought to love their wives as

themselves, and ought to give their lives upfor their wives. Wives in the same way oughtto respect their husbands. Marriage is anillustration that God gave us of the

relationship Jesus Christ has with the church.


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What does it have to do with my

children?

Parents are the examples to their kids.

Children will mimic their parents. If parentmodel a Christ like behavior that willinfluence the kids as well. If parents modelan ungodly behavior that will be what the

children will mimic.


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Outcome

A healthy/ God centered marriage will not

only glorify God but will give your children afirm foundation of what marriage is and whata true family looks like. Many Christianfamilies look no different than the ones of the

world, thus we as Christians must take astand.


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As to salvation

Theology (Theos=God, Logy= study of)

Theology is a study of God, or a discourse onGod. We must start with a solid Biblicalemphasis of what salvation is.


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Jonah 2:9

Salvation is from the LORD.

It is God almighty who saves and bringsabout salvation. It is the LORD who savesand no other, God of Abraham, Isaac andJacob.


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Ezekiel 37

This is a chapter which portrays a valley filled

with bones. Suddenly God starts to makemen out of the bones, he puts skin andmuscles on them. Finally God sends thebreath also could be translated as Spirit

and an exceedingly great army stood


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John 14:6

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no

one comes to the Father but through Me.John 14:6 (NASB)


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Whats the big deal?

The big deal is that God saves, we are just

privileged messengers who are given thehonor to proclaim the unfathomable richesthat are in Christ.


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A Christian home

Just because your children are born in a

Christian home it does not guarantee thatthey will be saved.

WHAT!!!!! Yes this is true


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Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,

And in sin my mother conceived me. Psalms51:5 (NASB)


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Sinfulness of Sin

We are born in sin, thus we are not sinners

because we sin but we sin because we aresinners.


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A change?

In order to change your children, andinfluence them positively we must address

the core which is sin


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Romans 10:9-10

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus asLord, and believe in your heart that Godraised Him from the dead, you will besaved; for with the heart a person believes,resulting in righteousness, and with the

mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)


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Exegesis that has gone wrong

We have taken the passage from Romans10:9-10 and turned it into a magical formula


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Whats the meaning

It means exactly what it says..

Yet the background of it is totally differentfrom ours

During first century to confess someone elseas lord instead of Cesar would be considered

of putting a death sentence on yourself


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Cost

There was a cost that early Christians had topay in order to follow Christ


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What can we do as parents

DO NOT HURRY!

WAIT ON THE LORD!


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Ill make him/her a Christian

As parents, it is not your responsibility tobring about salvation upon your kids but to

model a Christ like life, talk about Jesus(gospel) and most important live it out in frontof your kids.


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Actions speak louder than words

Children have a tendency to observe ratherthan listen. As Craig Jutila says that childrenremember what we do, not what we say.


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Whats the appropriate time for a child

to understand the Gospel message?

Obviously little babies, infants cannotunderstand nor speak so they are out of thequestion. (It does not mean that they aredoomed to hell, Scripture does not clearlyaddress this issue so we must trust that they

are in the hands of a righteous God who didnot spare His own son but gave Him over forour sins.


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Is there an appropriate age?

Wait for your children to ask you questions.The Holy Spirit will convict them of sin, beready and listen to them.


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Baptism

Baptism does not save, it is a publicprofession of a Christian who already hasfaith, and baptism is a result of that faith thatthe Christian already possessed beforebaptism.


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Do not dip them if they dont initiate!

Wait for your children until they ask you ifthey can be baptized, do not dunk them justbecause you want to make sure they aresafe.

Baptism will not save them, only Jesus.


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This is hard to accept

This is what the Bible teaches, and if wewant to be obedient we must follow it and notour own pathetic strategies and plans that wehave for our children. Waiting on God is not

easy which brings me to my second

pointPRAYER


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Pray for your kids

Make it a habit to pray regularly with yourspouse for your children, pleading with Godfor their salvation.


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So Im the teacher?

Yes, you are the primary teacher of yourchildren, it is a parents responsibility not Mrs.Jones.


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To the fathers

It is your responsibility to educate your boyson sexuality not the playboy magazine orBobby who happened to hear stories fromhis older cousin Slash. When your sonreaches 12 or even earlier now be ready to

have a sex-talk with your sons based onthe Biblical principles.


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To the mothers

It is your responsibility to have a sex-talk withyour daughters, the husband should bepresent for this one. Father is the head of thehouse and should add helpful and usefulcontent to the conversation


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Proverbs

Hear, my son, your father's instructionAnd do not forsake your mother's teaching;9 Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to yourheadAnd ornaments about your neck. Prov 1:8-9

(NASB)


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Read?

Read the Word to your kids and encouragethem to read it as well, there are manychildren Bibles these days, get them a

translation that suites them


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True Wisdom

The fear of the LORD is the beginning ofknowledge;Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov1:7 (NASB)


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IMPORTANT

For Children time=love

You need to make time for them!


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Whats next

We must reconsidered what grandma Jennytaught us, and we must stand firmly on gods

word and bring it into practice in our dailylives especially at home.


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Principles

1) Walkwe must model Christ like lives for

our children


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2) Talk after we walk we must talk and

proclaim Gods message to our children as

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 teaches.


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3) Prayagain prayer is a necessary plea for

the salvation of your children, pray often,pray without ceasing.


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Works Cited

Essentials for Childrens ministryby CraigJutila

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