As we approach Holy Week and Easter services at Immanuel:
Bring your children to church.
Saturate their lives with Holy Scripture.
Even when they get the wiggle fidgets. Even when they lay on the floor. Even if they need 437 Goldfish crackers and a sucker to be quiet. Even when you stand in the fellowship hall swaying back and forth holding them. Even when it’s hard. Even when when your row looks like a small hurricane just came through. Even when they run from your arms into the chancel and interrupt the sermon. (You know I’ll smile, interact with them, and send them back to you. :-))
Bring your children to church.
Let them see you sing. Let them see you pray. Let them see the Savior serving you in Word and Sacrament.
If they don’t see and learn these things from you, from whom are they going to learn? The world will teach them this is not a priority. The world will teach them it’s okay not to read the Bible or pray. The world will direct them so far off course, confuse them, and misinform them that just being “good” is good enough.
The world won’t teach them about Jesus.
Bring your children to church.
“Some people began bringing little children to Jesus so that he would touch them. But the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said, “Let the little children come to me! Do not hinder them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Amen I tell you: Whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the little children in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them” (Mark 10:13-16 EHV)
Raising children is a great responsibility. Raising children in the Christian faith is an even greater responsibility. Let your child see Who is most important in your life.
Bring your children to church.