We must help parents grasp the importance of being in church every week. If we don’t, children will grow up thinking that church attendance is something you do when there is nothing else to do. Parents who don’t make church a top priority will produce children who think church attendance is optional.
Help children memorize key Bible verses and passages. Get these verses and passages into children’s long-term memory. In this previous article, I share how to do this.
Teach children to dig deeper and find the context and backstories of Bible passages. What was the situation when this was written? How do we see God at work in this lesson? How does this apply to our lives today?
Pray for children to fall in love with God’s Word and make it a key part of their lives. Help them see that the Bible is a text message of love sent from God to them. Each time they read God’s Word, encourage them to pause and ask God to speak to them through what they are about to read. If you will do this, kids will fall in love with God’s Word at a deeper level.
Teach children why the Bible is true. If we want to see kids learn and love God’s Word, then we must take a deeper dive and help them see why we believe the Bible is God’s Word. No, it’s not a bunch of fairy tales. No, it wasn’t written by men. It was written directly by God as He inspired the people who wrote down His Words. God told the men what to write down.
Here are some more resources you can check out to help kids and parents love God’s Word and get a deeper understanding about it.
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