The Lord used Pastor Piper to preach a much needed, on time sermon this past Sunday. It was about teaching our children how to love different people. He explained that "different" can mean race or disability. Here is a list of the 8 ways that he mentioned. The whole manuscript is definitely worth reading.
8 Ways to Help the Children Love Different People
1. Help the children believe in God’s sovereign wisdom and goodness in creating them with the body that they have.
2. Help the children believe in God’s sovereign wisdom and goodness in making other people with the body that they have.
3. Help the children believe that they and all other children and adults are made in God’s image.
4. Teach the children that God tells us to do to others as we would like others to do to us.
5. Teach the children and model for them that their own sin is uglier than anybody they think is physically unattractive.
6. Teach the children that God loves them in spite of the ugliness of their sin and that he proved this by sending his Son to die for our sins and give forgiveness to all who would trust him.
7. Teach the children that because Jesus died for them and rose again, he becomes for them an all-satisfying Friend and Treasure.
8. Teach the children to love others who are different from them, not in order to be accepted by God, but because they already are accepted by God because of Jesus.
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Thanks for this concise summary... I had listened to the sermon before, and was going to do that myself! ( I'm the children's coordinator).
Was so thankful for that message...
So, so, so, rich and good!
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