How can I get my child to go to church? TRAIN your children,( It reads in Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.)Be part of a good, Bible-believing, worshiping church, and teach your children to love being “in church”. Spend devotional time with them personally. Pray with them, read the Bible with them. Let your home be filled with Christian music. Sing to the Lord with your children. Teach them worship songs. But I say how do you get your parents to go to church. Refer back to Proverbs 22:6 because we are all children of God who believe in Jesus Christ. Our children can teach their parents to follow Christ. Amen! Each Sunday I go to Church. I see people with their spouse and children. I see people coming to church alone. I see students with no parents coming to church. Hmm! I was growing up we went to church. My sister, brother and myself. My sister and myself sang in the choir. So we was at church on Wednesday and Sunday. My mom was catholic so we go to her church to pray and go on our way to where ever we where walking too. Our mom and dad would go on Christmas Service and sometimes Easter Service. Our dad would go once in awhile to repent. Just saying. We was able to be influenced by family’s that did stick together at church. Church family has a strong bond and this is Jesus Christ. Church families are total givers and teach others to give of their hearts. We can further understand what Paul is speaking through this reading that describes both the unity of believers and the new hope which Christians have in Jesus. The passage begins with Paul’s mention of his imprisonment and his focus on Christian unity.
I. The way you live has nothing to do with the way you were saved. …
II. The way we walk is seen in how we treat others. …
III. The way you walk is up to you. The Bible is making a challenge, this morning, but no one alive knows the results of this challenge.
It reads in Ephesians Chapter 4;
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
“Instructions for Christian Living”
So, I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
“People their consciences being cauterized or seared as with a red hot iron, which is the consequence of judicial hardness; so that they have lost all sense of sin, and do not feel the load of its guilt upon them, and are without any concern about it; but on the contrary commit it with pleasure, boast of it and glory in it, plead for it and defend it publicly, and openly declare it, and stand in no fear of a future judgment.” “Do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God. Submit therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Stay close to God, and He will stay close to you.”
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I believe that I too might be securely set in Jesus Christ’s way, who shed His blood to save me from my sins, and that I might walk in a manner that is worthy of Him. I believe that no harmful words would proceed from my mouth, but that the words of my lips and the meditation of my heart may be gracious, good and truth. I thank You and praise You for Your grace, Your mercy, Your love and Your boundless forgiveness towards me. I believe I will reflect You in my thoughts, my words, my deeds and I believe that I will be kind, compassionate, forgiving and give the gift of forgiveness to others as You have forgiven me. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2 Peter 3:18
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