Deuteronomy 4:9, 10, 25-26, 40
Make them known to your children and your children's children… the Lord said to me, "Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so…." When you father children and children's children, I call heaven and earth to witness against you... Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you.
One of the most neglected areas of discipleship is also one of the most obvious: the home. God places a high value on making disciples from scratch. The commission to be fruitful and multiply assumes a lot of seeds followed by a lot of saplings.
One of the best and most helpful things any person can do for the advancement of the glory of God, is to love those closest to home. If more parents took seriously the charge to disciple (i.e. discipline and instruct) their children, the church would be less burdened by urgent cases of need. There would be less broken individuals and the ones that did break would already have a built in system to turn to for wisdom, help, grace, faith and instruction – leaving cases of actual need: those without anyone else to disciple them, to the church.
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