Turn off the TV, video games and other distractions for a day and yes, bring them to church.

Saturate their lives with the Word of God. Even if they lay on the floor. Even if they need 437 goldfish and a sucker to be quiet.

Even if you stand in the back swaying back and forth holding them. Even when it’s hard. Even when your row looks like a small hurricane just came through. Bring them to church.

Let them see you worship. Let them see you pray. Let them see you running toward the Savior … because if they don’t see and learn these things from you, who are they going to learn them from?

The world will teach them it’s not a priority. The world will teach them it’s okay to lay out, not to pick up their Bibles. The world will direct them so far off course, confuse them, and misinform them that just being “good” is enough. The world won’t teach them about Jesus. That’s our job.

Research shows that kids who attend church regularly are happier, healthier, and better-adjusted. Plus, church is a great place for kids to learn morals, virtues, and the Word of God.

As our culture slides further into depravity, kids need church more than ever. Our children are being constantly barraged with teachings that directly contradict Christian beliefs. If Christian parents don’t actively work to undo this indoctrination, our children will soon have the same beliefs as the secular world.

According to the Pew Research Center, people who attend church regularly are much happier than those who do not attend church. The research found that people who attended church at least once a week or more were happier than those who went less often. And those who did not attend church at all were reported the least happy.

  “A family that prays together, stays together.”

The old cliché might bring some eye rolls, but it’s not any less true now than it was then. The family core worships together just as the church family comes together to worship.

When a family makes God the central focus in their life, they can learn and grow together.

Sin has torn apart many families, leaving some parents alone in the task of raising their children in God’s Word.

Families can find strength as they come together in prayer, and a church family can be an influential part in a family’s life. A church family can give grandparents to children who don’t have any (or any that live close). It can give grandkids to members whose families live far away and can’t see each other.

These relationships strengthen the family unit and create personal, familial connections that otherwise wouldn’t exist.

“Pew Grandparents” are a legitimate category of family! In a broken world filled with broken families, the church can provide the family with relationships that can forgive, heal and unite with the power of God’s love that works in His people.

Bring them to church.

And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Teaching kids is a huge responsibility. We must take it seriously and do it well. Prepare well, speak truth, and remember they are God’s kids first. (Matthew 18:5-6)

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 19:14)

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)

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