- Train children to respect and obey authority
- Preparing for God
- II Corinthians 5:10
- Our job as parents is to teach God’s standards – not our standards.
- Matthew 25:41, 46
- Romans 1:30 – disobedience to parents is listed as a sin! See also II Timothy 3:2; Titus 2:11-12; 3:1-3
- Where is a child supposed to learn about authority? At home!
- I Timothy 3:4 – One piece of evidence that a man is a good father is that he keeps his children under control with all dignity.
- Spanking – proven bad by science?
- Robert Larzelere, Oklahoma State University
- Optimal type of discipline: conditional spanking
- Consider the following views:
- “Our family believes in love, negotiation, and cooperation – not tyranny. We talk to our kids instead of punishing them.”
- Hebrews 12:7-11
- This is a false dichotomy!
- “Kids should shut up and stay out of the way, or else!”
- “Our family believes in love, negotiation, and cooperation – not tyranny. We talk to our kids instead of punishing them.”
- Robert Larzelere, Oklahoma State University
- Preparing for God
DW
January 29, 2017
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