{"id":26868,"date":"2018-02-05T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcpathway.local\/?p=26868"},"modified":"2018-02-01T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:38:37","slug":"whose-children-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2018\/02\/05\/whose-children-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose children are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cFor there is no partiality with God.\u201d \u2013 Romans 2:11<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Bible tells us that children are a gift from God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How proud and happy we are when we look down in a baby\u2019s face and see the miracle God has made!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We become so attached to the little ones He has placed in our care!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It becomes easy to think of them as only \u201cour\u201d children when they are loved by God as His own.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our desire should be to make sure they become His children through acceptance of Jesus as their personal Savior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">God has no partiality among people and neither should we be partial to some children over others.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It isn\u2019t easy to show no preference to the children God has placed in our earthly family over the children in other families.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet, as adults working with children, that is what God expects of us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I remember when our youngest son was in Cub Scouts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His dad had to commute to work and couldn\u2019t find time to help with the troop.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It seemed that all the awards went to the son of the scoutmaster!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It hurt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">God sent His son for all children as told to us in John 3:16.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Children whose parents do not attend church are at a disadvantage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is tempting to brag on some children and not spend as much time helping others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A pastor of a large church in Texas tells of how his parents did not take him to church when he was a child.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His Sunday School teacher picked him up each Sunday and took him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When there was a potluck or special occasion, she made extra food and told him she would pick him up and take him. We never know where kindness will lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A youth leader once told me how he got upset with a teen boy for saying something bad about his son one night at church. He scolded the teen and sent him home.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One has to wonder what happened to the teen boy who needed help in knowing Jesus and the way of kindness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A real challenge for workers with children in church is helping the \u201cchurch kids\u201d and those coming from unchurched families get along.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is difficult to meet the needs of both.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The \u201cchurch kids\u201d have learned more about the Bible and know most of the answers to questions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The \u201cunchurched\u201d kids feel badly because they don\u2019t know as many answers and thus don\u2019t get as much attention.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The need for the \u201cunchurched\u201d is to learn the Bible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s be honest, don\u2019t many of our \u201cchurch\u201d kids need to learn to be kind, nice, friendly, and receptive to the \u201cunchurched\u201d?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Which is more important? Is it more important to know the Bible stories or to be kind and loving?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A skillful worker will teach both. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">God not only loves the children he has placed in our families; he loves the children He has placed in the care of adult workers just as much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He is wanting us to love all children just as he does and show no favoritism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God not only loves the children he has placed in our families; he loves the children He has placed in the care of adult workers just as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[40,5,7,8,9,99],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whose children are they?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"God not only loves the children he has placed in our families; 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