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What is our Mission?

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Our mission is to see all people glorifying God.

That is all people.

Kids, parents, volunteers.

The Mission of our Children’s Ministry is to see all people glorifying God.

Now the question is what steps do we take to accomplish our mission.

5 objectives we center our ministry around.

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Share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with kids and give them opportunities to respond in faith and trust.

2. Develop Bible Skills in kids so that they may continue to grow in their obedience to God.

3. Teach kids how to participate in missions through serving and sharing the Gospel with other people.

4. Equip parents as they model and teach daily Christ Centered living to their kids.

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5. Create an environment where families can build lasting relationships with each other and the church.

That is our mission and steps we are taking to accomplish it.

So what is the responsibility of kids, parents, and the church as we all seek to partner together in order to achieve our mission?

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Parents

What is your role in helping us accomplish our mission for the Children’s Ministry?

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Our context here is that in Chapter 5 Moses read off the 10 Commandments that God had given Israel.

At the start of chapter 6 Moses again tells Israel that these commandments were given to him by God so that he could teach them and so that they as God’s people could be obey them and glorify God.

Then we come to verse 4.

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In verse four Moses gives them a reminder about who God is.

God is one.

He is the one true and sovereign God and He alone is who we should devote our lives to.

Then in verse 5 Moses begins to give Israel three more commands.

The first one he gives is that they “shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

We need parents who love God.

Parents what we need from you is to first is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

We need parents who love God.

Not just love God by saying I love God and I’m a Christian, but truly show your love of God through your actions.

How do you do we do that as parents?

By obeying God’s commandments.

John is writing this letter so that his audience may not sin.

He reminds them that Jesus is their sacrifice, the offering for their sin.

Then he tells them how they can know if they love Jesus.

In verse three he tells them if they are seeking to keep Jesus’ commandments then they know Jesus.

Then he ends this section by saying “whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”

If we say we are a follower of Christ then John tells us we ought to walk in the way in which Jesus walked.

If we as parents are going to claim the name Christ Follower we better seek to keep his commandments otherwise the Bible says we are liars.

That means we are reading our Bibles and praying daily so that we may communicate with God, we are seeking to prioritize our life and our children’s lives so that God is first and all things come after that, it means that you are showing love to all people, it means that you are serving, and we could on and on.

We need parents who love God and show that love by obeying His commandments.

The second command Moses gives is that “these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.”

We need parents’ whose lives are centered around God’s Word.

God desired that Israel have these commandments and words from God within their heart.

The heart during this time was considered the center or the core of the person.

So to have God’s word within your heart means that your life, the core of who you are is centered around God’s Word.

We need parents whose lives are centered around the Word of God.

There is temptation for everybody to center their life around other things.

It could be work or your personal goals in life.

It could even be our kids.

Parents who center their life around their kids can happen even without the parents knowing it.

We want to see our kids happy.

I want Easton and Reed to be happy and sometimes they can break your heart when they are sad.

But what can happen is we as parents can center our life and their families life around what our kids like to do.

I loved to play baseball.

So most of my childhood years was centered around me playing baseball.

Did I enjoy it?

Yes.

Was playing baseball bad for me?

Not necessarily.

But what happened was there was no church attendance, we didn’t talk about Jesus, nothing spiritual at all happened.

I was a good baseball player, had good morals, had straight A’s in school, got an academic scholarship, but I was still a lost soul.

Now I love my parents, and they were doing what they thought was best because they didn’t know better.

Parents who are here tonight listen to what God is saying.

The danger for us as parents is that if we are not centering ourselves and our family around the word of God then we could just end up raising morally sound kids who are still lost.

Sports isn’t bad, academic achievement is bad, fun with family isn’t bad.

But to have your life and your kids life ran by anything but the Word of God is dangerous.

We need parents who are centered around God’s Word.

What does it mean to be centered around God’s Word?

It means seeking to know and follow what God commands in the Bible.

Being centered around God’s Word means we as parents make our quiet time where we study our Bibles and pray to God a priority.

It means we seek to apply what we study to our lives in how we interact with people.

And it means we make church a priority.

This can be a challenge, and it may mean that we have to prepare Saturday so that we can be in Sunday School or it may mean we have to organize and plan to be a part of a parent discipleship class, or maybe it means we sit down with a calendar and see where our time is committed.

God commands us to read our Bible’s and pray to Him, God commands us to love our neighbors, God commands us to rest, and God commands us to worship Him both in Church and outside of Church.

Those commands given by God and we as parents are responsible for leading our family to follow God’s commands.

There are things that are good which for me was baseball, but God doesn’t command us to play baseball.

God has given us sports and activities to enjoy and learn from and participate in.

But God never approves of anybody forsaking his commands to pursue what they or their children desire.

We must be parents who are centered around God’s Word.

be in a parent discipleship class.

We all have commitments and things we are involved in, but if we are going to center our lives around God’s Word then we as parents need to be sure we aren’t filling our lives and our children’s lives with good things while sacrificing the best things.

The third command Moses gives is for parents to pass along their faith to their kids.

“You shall teach them diligently to your children.”

We need parents who will intentionally and diligently teach the Bible to their kids.

God’s desire was and is for parents to teach God’s commandments to their children so that there would never be a generation who did not love God and honor him.

That is the danger of us not diligently teaching our children about our faith.

How do you go about this?

Well Moses tells us.

“talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

So how do we teach our kids and hopefully by God’s grace pass along our faith to faith to our children?

We talk about it!

When do we talk about it?

All the time!

God specifically commands parents to disciple their children.

What does it mean to disciple your child?

It means to teach the Bible to them.

It means you memorize the Bible with them.