WE WILL SEE IN THEM WHAT THEY SEE IN US

Something to think about:

In the U.S.of A. only 18.7% of the population of any community will be in church on Sunday or Wednesday.

Of that 18.7% of the population, when both natural parents are faithful to attend church together, 76% of the children of that family will attend church faithfully as adults.

When only Dad attends faithfully the percentage of faithful children drops to 51%, who will become faithful church members.

When only Mom attends faithfully that percentage drops to a miserable 17% of children who will grow into adulthood and be faithful in attendance to the local New Testament Church.

Seventeen percent of nineteen percent is equivalent to a little more than three percent.

We will be faithful to something, weekends at the lake, motorcycle club, or race track, mountains, or river, and the list goes on.

The god that mom and dad serve will be the god that our children serve.

Our children see faithfulness in us and they will follow as children and as adults.

In the book of Deuteronomy ch 6:5-9, our God tells us how to do this :

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

That folks is lifestyle evangelism.

It is not the worship of consumer items or goods, it is not the excessive consumptive lust that causes us to desire this name or that name on our backs, heads, hands, and as wheels that we ride on.

You are so consumed by the things of God that you cannot glorify the things of the world by advertising for those things which will subtly take our children.

He further tells us what to expect from our efforts.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

As our children approach adult hood and begin to display who they are, we can be sure that we will see in them exactly what they saw in us.

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

Sometimes through the lives of our children.