day no. 15,511: warp and woof

"In simplest form, the covenant God has made with man is simply: love, trust and obey God and teach your children to do the same. And to take it one step further, we haven't taught our children to do the same unless or until we have taught them to teach their children." — R.C. Sproul, Jr., When You Rise Up

In Matthew 28:18-20, the disciples are commanded to make disciples. So, in order to be a disciple, you must go and make more disciples and part of that making includes teaching them to do for the next person what you are doing for them at that moment.

The same is true for parenting. The command to those living in covenant is to invite more in and that begins with teaching what God has done (drama) and what it means (doctrine). God then commands us to teach others and part of that teaching must include teaching them to teach others to teach others. In other words, a man may preach to his great grandchildren by teaching his children to teach their children to teach their children.

The warp and woof of the Christian life is making disciples by immersing them into the Triune God and teaching them to observe and obey everything He has said, being reminded as we remind them that God is with us when we do this. This should be Christian business as per usual.