How Should We View Our Children in the Church?
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How should we as parents view our children in the church as we are tasked with bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? How should we as congregants view the children in our churches, whom we have a solemn responsibility to evangelize and instruct? In this booklet Joel R. Beeke discusses theological and practical foundations for raising and nurturing children in light of the covenant of grace.
Contents:Encouragement Through the Covenant
Children of the Covenant
The Covenant Promise
Rearing Children by Faith
Bringing Children to Christ
Series Description
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most all is “to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’” As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
Joel R. Beeke
Dr. Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, a pastor of Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Mich., and editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books. He is author of numerous books, including Parenting by God’s Promises, Knowing and Growing in Assurance of Faith, and Reformed Preaching.
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How Should We View Our Children in the Church? - Joel R. Beeke
HOW SHOULD WE
VIEW CHILDREN
IN THE CHURCH?
JOEL R. BEEKE
REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
How Should We View Children in the Church?
© 2019 by Joel R. Beeke
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CULTIVATING BIBLICAL GODLINESS
Series Editors
Joel R. Beeke and Ryan M. McGraw
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most of all is to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’
As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
HOW SHOULD WE
VIEW CHILDREN
IN THE CHURCH?
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
—Acts 2:39
Christian parents want to faithfully glorify God in their calling to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and to see them get saved and grow as disciples of Jesus. How then should we view and raise our children in the church? God points us to His own triune being and His salvation as well as to the covenant of grace, which grounds and encourages our view and raising of our children in the church. The covenant of grace is that bond between God and His people in Christ, first revealed in God’s promise of a Savior given to Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:15) and confirmed by the