It grieves me seeing how many parents don\u2019t bring their children to church anymore, and don\u2019t come to church themselves. I know it\u2019s not easy to be a mom and to care for your children, but I\u2019m certain that it wasn\u2019t any easier back in the days. But then, mothers knew how important it was to go to church and bring their children along.\u00a0 They would go through cold and frosty weather, rain, snow, and walk far distances just so they could worship God together with the family, and teach their kids about holiness and how to be godlier, through constant worship.<\/p>\n
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The Bible tells us about Timothy, how his father was Greek and his mother, Eunice, was Jewish. Timothy\u2019s mom and Grandmother Lois, taught him the Word of God at an early age; that\u2019s why he had a beautiful character and God used him with power. Paul met Timothy at the church in Lystra.<\/p>\n
In the last century, around year 60, the communist leadership of the Soviet Union passed some laws which forbade children to go to church. They did that because they wanted to prevent children from growing in holiness and they wanted them to lose their faith. But then, the parents would bring them to church secretly and the children would secretly go to church by their own free will to worship God and they did not lose their faith! Today, parents don\u2019t even care to bring their kids to church anymore. Later, the parents will cry when they will realize that their kids don\u2019t go to church anymore and don\u2019t have the desire to follow our Savior\u2019s teachings. The parents will cry, but they won\u2019t be able to change anything, it will be too late because they ignored Gods advice, which says:<\/p>\n
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also important that in the middle of the church service, mothers watch their children to ensure that they\u2019re taking part of worship and that they are not outside walking around and playing with other kids. Every time I\u2019m invited to preach in small villages I\u2019m impressed to see how the children listen carefully to my message and they participate in worship through songs and prayer.<\/p>\n
May God help us understand how important it is to bring our children to church and teach them how to truly worship through our examples and teachings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Translated by: Diana Chistol<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Can you please write an article on something that has been bothering me concerning bringing children to church! I think it\u2019s a \u201cvirus\u201d or something: parents bring their children to church and bless them, but then, as they get older they don\u2019t bring them to church anymore, and they also don\u2019t go to church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":83593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[20461,20462,20464,20465,20466],"class_list":{"0":"post-83592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-answer-from-the-bible","8":"tag-childrent-in-church","9":"tag-family-in-church","10":"tag-the-whole-family-in-church","11":"tag-with-all-the-family-in-church","12":"tag-family-worships-god","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n