You gotta have it to give it
I'm currently reading a book by Cotton Mather called "A Family Well Ordered". It's not a very big book, but it's taking me some time to read through it because I keep having to stop to make notes, and now to write about something I thought needed to be shared. "Parents, if you don't first become pious (devoted to your religious beliefs) yourselves, you will do nothing to purpose to make your children so. Except you do yourselves walk in the way of the Lord, you will be very careless about bringing your children to such a walk." Cotton Mather This was such a simple statement, but it was one that still took me back. There is a wide-sweeping assumption within the church that the spiritual well-being of children is the responsibility of trained professionals with fancy degrees from prestigious schools of faith. And, if that be the mindset, then the victory is simply getting them to church! Once at church, the children are released under the care of ot...