How to teach reverene to challenging children. Any ideas. Our kids are indigenous and have various family problems that affect their behaviour. They are all beautiful children
Our Kids need to understand and impliment Reverence
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TonyKummer
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Score: 192Reverence is sometimes hard for kids. I think teaching about God's greatness and power are a start. Kids also need to hear the storyline of the Bible and learn all of God's mighty acts in salvation history.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Joy
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Score: 3I agree with these comments. I have had several lessons on this subject. I even used the example of How would we act in a Kings castle and what do we do at the park. The children understood the lesson and they had the right answers but then their actions are totally different from their responses. I think the fault lies within the parents. Parents see their children running and playing in the church but they don't say anything.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Diane
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Score: 2I agree with Joy. Parents need to set an example firstly and secondly, to teach their children that coming to Church is something that is sacred to each one and that we should consider the other people around us. Having said that, our minister loves to have children in the church so just before the sermon the children are excused and to Sunday school class we go. We Sunday School teachers can teach the children the lessons but it needs to be followed thru at home and sadly, its not. Parents today don't seem to spend time with their children around the Bible anymore - thats what we are therefor. Its very tragic...
Posted 11 months ago # -
Beefarmer
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Score: 10I opened this post thinking, "Ah, I will find the answer to how to get my kids to behave at church." While reading the posts, a voice spoke to me...these are children, teach them the ways, but remember they are my children."
In the church building, I think we can expect them not to run circles, yell, or destroy property. And expect the parents to enforce that. Behond that, we can teach by example and our words. But remember, these lessons may take years to be learned. You could not learn to read until you learned letter forms, phonics, etc.
Take heart and have patience that the lessons you teach today are setting a firm foundation for their spiritual life as adults.Posted 10 months ago # -
TonyKummer
offlineNinja Warrior
Score: 192Great point. Kids should be children because God loves children! There has to be a balance moderated by love for them, more than love for 'peace & quiet.'
Posted 10 months ago # -
Jolin
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Score: 0yeh some times they are too rude to their parents...
At that time we should treat them as friends not as their guardians..._____________________________
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pureworship
offlineBeginner
Score: 1As a Children's church worker, when the kids are at church, we can interact with them wehn they are not in the classroom. Like before and after the Sunday evening service if you see them running, call out to them to come to you and remind them that running around on the stage is not showing reverance to Jesus. Do a reward system that includes reverant behavoir during other services or reward them right after the service for good behavior. (A decon of a church that I attended when I was a child would do this.)
No rude behavior towards the parent, the parent has to change but never allow the child to treat you that way.Posted 8 months ago # -
stocksohio
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Score: 248Pureworship,
In reading your reply, I was struck that there are two groups of kids we minister to. One group is likely saved kids who have accepted Jesus. Without being legalistic, I think it is appropriate to talk to them about showing reverence to God. That said, I think the way we show reverence to God is in how we live (i.e., living fully and completely to him). I think if we reduce reverence to following rules alone (like not running around on the stage), we have substituted our way for God's way. I think it's fine, and absolutely necessary, to have rules and to require kids to follow them, but when we teach them that rules are the way to God rather than relationship, we have turned Christianity into a set of rules and rituals. For example, some religious folk likely thought that Jesus turning over the tables in the temple was not reverent to God. In fact, we know that it was out of reverence and his relationship with God that he did it.
The second group of kids we minister to is unsaved, and we should not expect that they will live reverent lives. While, again, it is necessary to have rules and consequences, our goal must be to teach them that Christ died for all their sins - including irreverence.
Thanks again for your comments. I look forward to continued discussion.
Posted 7 months ago #
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