We recently went to a family's house for dinner and learned a lot. This family is further along on their walk through salvation than us. They are a bit older, have twice the amount of children and have been seeking the Lord a bit longer than us. So it was an awesome opportunity to learn from them! As the Bible teaches about letting the older woman and man teach the younger. We are trying to learn to do this ourselves and were soooo thankful to a family willing to do it for us in such a purposeful way. : ) So they gave us some ideas for discipling our children and we have been implementing some of what they advised along with what we were already doing. So I thought I would share what we do in regards to discipling our children just in case some of those reading this are looking for ideas. Obviously, this is just what we have been doing in the last couple of months, depending on where our children are and how old they are and such. So each family is different and needs different things.
We like to watch a movie that is called the Gospel of Matthew. It is word for word the book of Matthew from the Bible. One of my favorite things about it is how the disciples and Jesus are portrayed. They are joyous. They push each other around playfully, they laugh at their amazement over the works that Jesus does, Jesus douses Peter with water for fun. It is very similar to watching some of the husbands at our Bible study tease each other. The kids love it and I'm amazed at how much they have memorized just from watching this movie so much. Robert has started leading Family Worship daily. It is amazing what we have seen as a result! Our children are really changing, like a heart change. Softer words are being used and more interest in the Bible is cropping up. Every evening we sit down in the living room and we pray, sing a song (right now we are working on learning Nothing but the Blood), and read a page out of our The Gospel Story Bible. This is a great book! We went through Jesus Storybook Bible until I feared the girls would memorize it and then we moved on to this book. It's a little more mature. Then we talk about the lesson we learned from that book. Then the three older kids take turns standing up and practicing the verses they are working on memorizing. All the while Deakin is working on his "sitting quietly" skills. Which are limited, to say the least. ; ) In the mornings we read a chapter from Matthew while eating breakfast. Then we write down prayer requests into our "Prayer Book" (It's just a notebook) and pray before we begin the day in earnest. I keep two columns going in the book so that when a prayer request is answered we can go back and write it down. We have also started something called "The Question Box". It is a kleenex box that we decorated and made a pocket on the side for slips of paper and pen. The kids are able to put questions about the bible and God into it any time they feel like it. And then during dinner Daddy will take a question out of the box and answer it for them. This is so handy because the kids sometimes can think of the most inopportune time to ask these deep questions! And we say, "We'll talk about it later!" But then we forget and it never gets answered! So this gives us a specific time to answer these hard questions and gives the children a chance to write out their question right when it crops up. So that is where we are at this season in life! What works for you in discipling your children? "You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." Deuteronomy 11:19
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