Summary: There’s parenting, then there’s parenting God’s way. When my wife, Wendy, and I first became parents, we were given all sorts of advice from all sorts of people. And parents listening will understand that this is very common. Everyone has opinions on how to raise children, when to put them to bed, where to send them to school, what to feed them, and so on. But Jesus is a huge, pivotal factor in parenting that secular culture overlooks. Jesus changes our parenting because Jesus changes us. As followers of Jesus, part of our mission as parents is to be an example to our children, to live out the effects of the Good News that has penetrated our lives to change us. This will give the opportunity for our kids to witness what they might become, the people God wants them to be. If God is the center of your life, He will become the center of your parenting. The Bible’s wisdom tells us in Proverbs 22:6 to “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Make Jesus Christ the center of your life, your family, and start your children off on a path toward Him. This is Andrew Palau.
