August 26, 2007
26/08/07 18:40
Prayer Requests:
1. Kyle ~Suicidal
2. Ohio Flood Victims
3. School Kids ~Safety as school begins
4. Earl Summers ~ Fell
5. Let’s Pray Psalm 1
Teen Bible Study: 7pm at the church
Kid’s Bible Study: Friday Night 7 PM at the Church. Ages 9-11 Welcome!
Women’s Bible Study: Tonight at 6pm at the Church.
Guitar Lessons: Sept 12 at 5:30pm.
Music Practice: Tuesday, 6:30pm
Kidz Krusade Meeting: September 3, 6pm at the church. This meeting is to review the week and discuss strengths and weaknesses to help next year's program. Please come if you have input that will benefit the program.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His wondrous works and devoutly praise them! 1 Chronicles 16: 9
Neither “Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in They Presence”. ~Susanna Wesley~
Please note: To make a submission for the bulletin please contact Sister Jill Smith.(H) 740-828-2101 (C) 740-624-6647 email: jsmith01703467@columbus.rr.com Please Note: All submissions for the bulletin should be in no later than Thursday. Thanks!
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT…CHILD TRAINING continued By J. Richard Fugate
Children Must Be Restrained By Their Parents (continued)
The primary role of the parent is to act as an external control over the child’s nature. This helps to explain the reason for the almost limitless power of parental authority. Restraining the child’s nature is not all there is to child training. However, until this nature is brought under control there can be little, if any, positive training. The parent must act as the child’s external control until he can be taught internal controls. He is dependent on his parents to help control the sinful nature which seeks to enslave him.
Acknowledging the influence that your own sinful nature exerts on yourself will help you realize the importance of controlling your child’s nature. As an adult, you can probably observe certain areas in your own life where the sinful nature still exercises its control. The normal desire to eat can be distorted by the nature of sin to produce gluttony – unfulfilled indulgence. Likewise, the normal desire for sex can be distorted to insatiable lust for pornography or immoral behavior towards the opposite sex. [Or even the same sex-Robin’s inserted note] Even the simple desire to be accepted by others may be distorted by the nature to the point where a person will compromise right principles because of approbation lust. You can probably see how stronger parental controls would have helped you. You have the opportunity to help your own child become a mature adult by learning how to control his sinful nature while he is young.
For weeks, a six-year old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event. The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, "Tommy, whatever has become of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?"Tommy burst into tears and confessed, "I think Mommy ate it!"
1. Kyle ~Suicidal
2. Ohio Flood Victims
3. School Kids ~Safety as school begins
4. Earl Summers ~ Fell
5. Let’s Pray Psalm 1
Teen Bible Study: 7pm at the church
Kid’s Bible Study: Friday Night 7 PM at the Church. Ages 9-11 Welcome!
Women’s Bible Study: Tonight at 6pm at the Church.
Guitar Lessons: Sept 12 at 5:30pm.
Music Practice: Tuesday, 6:30pm
Kidz Krusade Meeting: September 3, 6pm at the church. This meeting is to review the week and discuss strengths and weaknesses to help next year's program. Please come if you have input that will benefit the program.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His wondrous works and devoutly praise them! 1 Chronicles 16: 9
Neither “Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in They Presence”. ~Susanna Wesley~
Please note: To make a submission for the bulletin please contact Sister Jill Smith.(H) 740-828-2101 (C) 740-624-6647 email: jsmith01703467@columbus.rr.com Please Note: All submissions for the bulletin should be in no later than Thursday. Thanks!
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT…CHILD TRAINING continued By J. Richard Fugate
Children Must Be Restrained By Their Parents (continued)
The primary role of the parent is to act as an external control over the child’s nature. This helps to explain the reason for the almost limitless power of parental authority. Restraining the child’s nature is not all there is to child training. However, until this nature is brought under control there can be little, if any, positive training. The parent must act as the child’s external control until he can be taught internal controls. He is dependent on his parents to help control the sinful nature which seeks to enslave him.
Acknowledging the influence that your own sinful nature exerts on yourself will help you realize the importance of controlling your child’s nature. As an adult, you can probably observe certain areas in your own life where the sinful nature still exercises its control. The normal desire to eat can be distorted by the nature of sin to produce gluttony – unfulfilled indulgence. Likewise, the normal desire for sex can be distorted to insatiable lust for pornography or immoral behavior towards the opposite sex. [Or even the same sex-Robin’s inserted note] Even the simple desire to be accepted by others may be distorted by the nature to the point where a person will compromise right principles because of approbation lust. You can probably see how stronger parental controls would have helped you. You have the opportunity to help your own child become a mature adult by learning how to control his sinful nature while he is young.
For weeks, a six-year old lad kept telling his first-grade teacher about the baby brother or sister that was expected at his house. One day the mother allowed the boy to feel the movements of the unborn child. The six-year old was obviously impressed, but made no comment. Furthermore, he stopped telling his teacher about the impending event. The teacher finally sat the boy on her lap and said, "Tommy, whatever has become of that baby brother or sister you were expecting at home?"Tommy burst into tears and confessed, "I think Mommy ate it!"