The problem today is that we are not disciplining our children for the sake of godliness. It’s not whether the kid likes it or not. What do you do with the older child who is sitting there yawning, saying he’s got a test to study for, and is not interested at all? It’s going to teach the deity of Jesus Christ. When you get through with chapter one, you’ll see how that chapter teaches the incarnation, that God became flesh. So next make a list of everything you learn about the Word, and point out that the Word is, of course, Jesus Christ. If you will take the time to observe it correctly, you’ll learn a lot. What does it mean?” So he looks for a commentary, or asks his pastor. Normally a person reads the Bible and says, “I can’t understand that. When you train the eye you begin to see what it says. You might think all they’re doing is coloring, but for a kid, that’s discovery. Then note that the first two verses indicate that the words, “He” and “Him” are also used as substitutes for “Word.” Have them go back through the passage and mark those words in yellow, too. Tell them to read through those verses, and every time they see the word, “Word,” there, color it yellow. When you meet with your kids, either give everyone a typed copy of John 1:1-18 or give each person a Bible. Try this with your children, and see if it works: Get a bunch of colored pencils. ![]() But God gave parents that responsibility. Many people seem to think they need to have some sort of professional training to really understand the Bible and then to teach it to their kids. ![]() They need to learn that every day you need to meet with God. But I would not say once a month, because one of the things you want to teach the child is that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. If it can’t be, it needs to be once a week. And you can study it in a way that’s not boring, where the child doesn’t passively sit but interacts with the Word of God and sees what it has to say. Give us a picture of what that Deuteronomy 6 family looks like today as we attempt to teach spiritual truth to our kids.įirst of all, I think there needs to be a time when the family gets together to study the Word. We live in a post-Christian era -we are a people who do not have a solid theology because we really don’t know God, and you can’t know God apart from getting into the Word. They open the Bible and are lost they read a few verses and that’s it. But they really don’t know what the Word of God says. They could tell you basic things about Jesus Christ and about God. When you say people in our churches today don’t know the Bible, what do you mean? We’re living in a time when a great majority of people in the church really don’t know God’s Word for themselves. Deuteronomy 6 tells us that we should teach God’s Word to our children “when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” But you cannot instruct your children in things that you don’t know. You believe that’s our mandate-our assignment -as parents, don’t you? We’ve developed a number of tools for people to learn the Bible and then to teach their children how to study it. We do this for children, for teenagers, and for adults. Our whole purpose is to teach people how to study God’s Word for themselves. Precept Ministries exists to establish God’s people in God’s Word so that we live lives of reverence toward Him. What is the purpose of Precept Ministries? In the following excerpt from that interview, Kay discusses how parents can teach God’s Word to their kids. Well over two million people have completed Precept Bible study courses since then. We discussed that topic with Kay Arthur, who with her husband Jack founded Precept Ministries in 1970. Often when we ask parents, “What’s your number one need?” Their most frequent answer is, “I want help in teaching the Christian life to my kids.” Teaching Your Children to Study the Bible
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