Comments on: How Can I Know If My Child Is Really Saved? http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/ Children's ministry should NOT be so hard . . . Ministry-To-Children.com exists to help you. You'll find thousands of lessons, ideas, and resources for telling kids about Jesus. All of this is 100% free and easy to print.. Fri, 25 May 2012 08:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: grisss http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-22180 grisss Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:23:01 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=1929#comment-22180 nice post Tony The word of God it is never to soon for are children thanks Tony we need to know if every thing about are childresn. nice post Tony The word of God it is never to soon for are children thanks Tony we need to know if every thing about are childresn.

]]> By: Mitzi http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-14462 Mitzi Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:48:56 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=1929#comment-14462 When my own children were young and wanted to be baptized, my husband and I were pretty "stand offish" about the whole thing. As odd as that may sound, it made our kids have to hunger and work to get our attention. This way we knew it was of the utmost importance to them. Of course for us it was a huge matter of prayer. We also told them, they had to come to us during the week and not on Sunday. This way we knew it was matter that consumed their thoughts. When my daughter was 8 she started leaving notes in the offering tray to get my husbands attention! Our other daughter went forward at church camp without even saying anything to us because she was so determined to follow Christ in Christian baptism. Now that they are adults, it is a joy to see their lives bearing fruit for the kingdom. When my own children were young and wanted to be baptized, my husband and I were pretty “stand offish” about the whole thing. As odd as that may sound, it made our kids have to hunger and work to get our attention. This way we knew it was of the utmost importance to them. Of course for us it was a huge matter of prayer. We also told them, they had to come to us during the week and not on Sunday. This way we knew it was matter that consumed their thoughts. When my daughter was 8 she started leaving notes in the offering tray to get my husbands attention! Our other daughter went forward at church camp without even saying anything to us because she was so determined to follow Christ in Christian baptism.
Now that they are adults, it is a joy to see their lives bearing fruit for the kingdom.

]]> By: Craig Johnson http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-14375 Craig Johnson Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:02:24 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=1929#comment-14375 Tony, The best resource I have read and am using now is "Your Child's Profession of Faith" by Dennis Gundersen (Grace & Truth Books). It is a brief, 57 page book that challenges parents not to affirm a child's profession of faith quickly, easily, and without assessing their understanding of faith and the gospel over the period of their childhood. It is an instructive and informative read that parents and children's ministry workers will find very helpful. Craig Tony,
The best resource I have read and am using now is “Your Child’s Profession of Faith” by Dennis Gundersen (Grace & Truth Books). It is a brief, 57 page book that challenges parents not to affirm a child’s profession of faith quickly, easily, and without assessing their understanding of faith and the gospel over the period of their childhood. It is an instructive and informative read that parents and children’s ministry workers will find very helpful.
Craig

]]> By: Sue Bishop http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-13425 Sue Bishop Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:44:18 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=1929#comment-13425 As a parent I get the fact that we want to know for sure that our kids are saved. The problem I see is that sometimes parents hold their kids back from being baptized or making a public profession of faith because they are afraid they're not ready. Our faith grows and matures as do our physical bodies. If it doesn't there is certainly a problem. Jesus said to have faith of a child, that to me is with total trust and abandon. When parents question or doubt their child's sincerity, we project our adult (not necessarily mature) fears and misgivings onto the children. Instead we should celebrate their commitments at whatever age and seek to help them have a clear understanding at each stage they enter. If we, as parents, put the same effort that we do into preserving the belief in Santa Claus that we do into believing in Jesus, how would our children be living? As a parent I get the fact that we want to know for sure that our kids are saved. The problem I see is that sometimes parents hold their kids back from being baptized or making a public profession of faith because they are afraid they’re not ready. Our faith grows and matures as do our physical bodies. If it doesn’t there is certainly a problem. Jesus said to have faith of a child, that to me is with total trust and abandon. When parents question or doubt their child’s sincerity, we project our adult (not necessarily mature) fears and misgivings onto the children. Instead we should celebrate their commitments at whatever age and seek to help them have a clear understanding at each stage they enter.

If we, as parents, put the same effort that we do into preserving the belief in Santa Claus that we do into believing in Jesus, how would our children be living?

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]]> By: Wayne Stocks http://ministry-to-children.com/know-children-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-7259 Wayne Stocks Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:20:50 +0000 http://ministry-to-children.com/?p=1929#comment-7259 Great post Tony. I really appreciated your list and the link to Justin Taylor's article as well. The only think I can think of that I might add is whether or not the child shows a hunger for God's Word. As a child this can take all kinds of forms. I know that in some kids I can see not just a desire to hear the story but to understand how it fits into the bigger picture. Great post Tony. I really appreciated your list and the link to Justin Taylor’s article as well. The only think I can think of that I might add is whether or not the child shows a hunger for God’s Word. As a child this can take all kinds of forms. I know that in some kids I can see not just a desire to hear the story but to understand how it fits into the bigger picture.

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