Week 8: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 1: Of Labor and Love – 1 Thessalonians 2:7,11; 1 John 2:1,12,13,18,28; 3:7, 18; 4:4; 5:21 The New Testament compares our relationship with those discipling us to the relationships of a nurse or caregiver to the children in their care. In the book of 1 John …
NT 7:5 Our Hearts Know
Week 7: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 5: Our Hearts Know – 1 Timothy 3:4-12; Titus 1:6 Not only was God careful to tell children how they were to behave, He also wanted their parents to know how their children were to behave. Two passages clearly show us that God expected the men …
NT 7:4 Stop Assuming
Week 7: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 4: Stop Assuming – Ephesians 6:1-4; Colossians 3:20,21 Sometime last year, I sat down with my Sunday School class of 8-13 year olds and said, “OK, here’s the deal, our Sunday School material skips 5 chapters of the Bible between 1 Kings and 2 Kings, and …
NT 7:3 Growing Up, Part II
Week 7: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 3: Growing Up, Part II – Galatians 4:19; Ephesians 4:13,14; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 13:11; 3:1-3; Hebrews 5:12-14; 1 Peter 2:2; Matthew 18:3 (Go here for Part I) To some extent, Paul opened his conversation with the Corinthians regarding maturity in 1 Corinthians 13 when he said, …
NT 7:2 Growing Up, Part 1
Week 7: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 2: Growing Up, Part I – Galatians 4:19; Ephesians 4:13,14; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 13:11; 3:1-3; Hebrews 5:12-14; 1 Peter 2:2; Matthew 18:3 When I was ten or eleven years old, my family met a family whose child would never grow up. I don’t mean that she …
NT 7:1 Children in the Church
Week 7: The New Testament and Children Cont’d Day 1: Children in the Church – Acts 21:5 As we move out of the gospels and into the second half of the New Testament we see that the Apostles were no more likely to ignore children in their ministries than was Christ. In Acts 21, we …
NT 6:5 Whose Children Are We?
Week 6: The New Testament and Children Day 5: Whose Children Are We? God often uses the term “children” in Scripture as an identifier of sorts. The implication is that if you are the children of _______ then you bare the characteristics of your father and brothers. Often the term represents a very simple, physical …
NT 6:4 Forbid Them Not
Week 6: The New Testament and Children Day 4: Forbid Them Not – Matthew 19:13-15; 18:3,4; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17 The disciples were just as human as any of the rest of us, and they made that very plain by some of their attitudes and actions. In Mark 10:13, we see parents bringing their children …
NT 6:3 Counting Sheep
Week 6: The New Testament and Children Day 3: Counting Sheep – Matthew 18:10-14 I love mountains. Real mountains. No offense to those of you living in little mountains that never break above the tree line, but I love tall mountains. Several years ago, the Lord gave me the opportunity to visit with missionaries that …
NT 6:2 Simply Scandalous
Week 6: The New Testament and Children Day 2: Simply Scandalous – Matthew 18:6,9 Understanding what Jesus truly meant when He spoke of receiving children has an enormous effect on the next few verses of Matthew 18. (Look back here.) It is amazing how many times I have heard each of the first three sections …
