I am fully behind The Case for Kids Parenting Seminar that we are about to hold. I believe in it and desire all of the parents in our church, and in our community for that matter, to attend.
The spring of this support and desire however is not simply a concern for some event I am organizing. I am enthusiastic about this seminar because I am a parent and am faced daily with the challenges of parenting. I need God’s grace daily, I need God’s instruction daily, I need the reminders that this seminar will bring. This is something I need and am excited to see others also benefit from through this seminar.
Here are six questions that I shared with my Grace Group. They are not intended to bring about a guilt trip of some sort but rather to convince you logically that this seminar has great potential to assist you in the all-important task of parenting.
- Has a day ever passed (or hour for that matter) when you felt adequate and sufficient for the task of parenting?
- How much time do you currently invest in growing and maturing in your parenting? How much time would be appropriate for a responsibility such as this?
- Do you have more to learn when it comes to properly disciplining, instructing, and encouraging your children according to the biblical pattern?
- Would you really take the time to thoroughly study and apply Scripture’s teaching on parenting on your own?
- If you have gone through this material before, would you really take the time to thoroughly review it and evaluate your parenting on your own?
- Do you have any need for interacting with and hearing from other parents in the body on these issues of parenting?
In case you had not heard the details of the conference here they are-
- Friday, September 21st and Saturday, September 22nd, 2007(The seminar will last from approximately 6:30-9:00 Friday and 9:00-2:00 Saturday)
- A two day video seminar covering crucial issues in parenting from ages 0-12 given by respected parenting authors and teachers Paul and Tedd Tripp.
- Dessert on Friday night and lunch on Saturday are included in the cost of the conference.
- The seminar will be held at the
- Child care will be available on Friday evening (there will be minimal child care on Saturday for those who can’t find any other childcare).
- The Cost will be $15 per couple for pre-registration and $20 at the door (cost will be waived for guests- e.g.- unbelievers)
Finally, here is an extended quote from the beginning of J.C. Ryle’s little booklet, The Duties of Parents.
Believe me, the subject is one that should come home to every conscience, and make every one ask himself the question, Am I in this matter doing what I can?” It is a subject that concerns almost all. There is hardly a household that it does not touch.
Parents, nurses, teachers, godfathers, godmothers, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, — all have an interest in it. Few can be found, I think, who might not influence some parent in the management of his family, or affect the training of some child by suggestion or advice. All of us, I suspect, can do something here, either directly or indirectly, and I wish to stir up all to bear this in remembrance.
It is a subject, too, on which all concerned are in great danger of coming short of their duty. This is pre-eminently a point in which men can see the faults of their neighbors more clearly than their own. They will often bring up their children in the very path which they have denounced to their friends as unsafe. They will see motes in other men’s families, and overlook beams in their own. They will be quick-sighted as eagles in detecting mistakes abroad, and yet blind as bats to fatal errors which are daily going on at home. They will be wise about their brother’s house, but foolish about their own flesh and blood. Here, if anywhere, we have need to suspect our own judgment. This, too, you will do well to bear in mind.