{"id":240238,"date":"2024-10-22T15:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacycoalition.ca\/?p=240238"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T20:53:44","slug":"modeling-the-bible-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacycoalition.ca\/es\/modeling-the-bible-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling the Bible for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Roger Massey, Friend of Legacy Coalition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ladies in the church nursery were very impressed. Katelyn was the most polite child they had ever seen. Only 13 months old, and yet she said \u201cplease\u201d every time she wanted something. When she wanted to be picked up, she would walk up to an adult, raise her arms above her head and say, \u201cup, please.\u201d When she wanted back down, she would politely say, \u201cdown, please.\u201d The ladies wondered how this child had been taught so well, so young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was easy,\u201d her parents explained when asked. \u201cWe just taught her that the word for \u2018up\u2019 is \u2018up, please\u2019 and the word for \u2018down\u2019 is \u2018down, please\u2019. And when we give her something, she\u2019s not allowed to take it until she says \u2018thank you.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t long before Katelyn figured out what words were what. Although many years have gone by, she still finds it very easy to say \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you.\u201d She wasn\u2019t taught to watch for occasions to be polite. Instead, she was raised with politeness as part of her world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It works with teaching politeness, and it works with teaching about the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Deuteronomy 11:18-20, Moses instructs the Israelites about the charges, statutes, judgments, and commandments of God. \u201cFix these words of Mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the Jews were supposed to raise their children with God\u2019s instructions as part of their world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you make pancakes, eggs, and orange juice part of a child\u2019s breakfast every day, that child will grow up believing everyone has pancakes, eggs, and orange juice for breakfast every day. Any time she eats breakfast without pancakes, eggs, and orange juice, she\u2019s going to notice something is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you make the Bible and conversations about the Lord part of every day, your children and grandchildren will grow up believing the Bible and conversations about the Lord are important every day. Any time they experience a day without the Bible and conversations about the Lord, they\u2019re going to notice something is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your kids and grandkids talk with you about their day \u2014 about troubles they have with friends or bullies, about struggles with homework, about decisions they need to make \u2014 first you need to LISTEN, then respond with Scripture.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n